Just as the bones, flesh, intestines and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes the sight of man endurable, so the agitations and passions of the soul are enveloped in vanity; it is the skin...
It's not ideas, nor vision, nor tools that truly matter in therapy. If you debrief patients at the end of therapy about the process, what do they remember? Never the ideas—it's always the relationship...
If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so ea...
If we do not want to be a plaything in the hands of every rogue and the object of every fool’s ridicule, the first rule is to be reserved and inaccessible.
I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
Have patience with everything unresolved and try to love the questions themselves. I would add: Try to love the questioners as well.
Am invatat demult ca atunci cand intre doua persoane este un lucru grav si nu vorbesc despre el, nu vorbesc nici despre altceva important.
Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said that if he had eight hours to cut down a tree, he’d spend several of these hours sharpening his ax.
I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good th...
I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every...
من آن چیزی را تعقل می کنم که علت وجودش در خودش باشد و ذاتش مستلزم وجود است. چیزی که طبیعت آن را به جز موجودبودن به طرز دیگری نتوان تعقل کرد
معجزه ها فقط به واسطه ی «جهل» انسان وجود دارند. در دوران باستان، هر رویدادی که ممکن نبود با علتهای طبیعی آن را توضیح داد، آن را معجزه در نظر می گرفتند. هرچه جهل توده ها، درباره کار طبیعت بیشتر بود، شم...
فردی که رویکردی کاسبکارانه دارد، وقتی قرار باشد ببخشد و در مقابل نستاند، حس میکند فریبخورده ولی برای انسان رشد یافته، بخشش نشانه قدرت، ثروت و وفور است.
Психотерапевты в своей работе всегда исходят из того, что истина, до которой человек дошел сам, намного дороже той, что ему рассказали другие.
Няма ли накрая да стигнем до Бог – последната грешка в погрешното търсене на върховната истина?
The flame of belief is fueled inexhaustibly by the fears of death, oblivion, and meaninglessness. Where
More commonly death anxiety surfaces in nightmares. A
Eternal recurrence means that every time you choose an action you must be willing to choose it for all eternity.
[T]echnique has a different meaning for the novice than for the expert. One needs technique in learning to play the piano but eventually, if one is to make music, one must transcend learned technique...
Yes, Bento had one weak spot, and Simon had discovered it. Bento was in love with books—not only the reading of books but the possession of them.