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The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy: 'I came to therapy hoping to receive butter for the bread of life. Instead, at the end, I…

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“Research in self-disclosure supports my own experience that the personal openness of the guru facilitates and invites the increased openness of the pilgrim. (24)”

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I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he wouldn't like the idea of having to solve problems every day for the rest of his life. My co-therapist told him that it was not required that he like it. She shared her own displeasure, saying:…

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Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

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“Crises marked by anxiety, doubt, and despair have always been those periods of personal unrest that occur at the times when a man is…

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Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your…

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I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when…

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Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and…

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“Of course, one other hypothetical alternative would have been for the child to decide that since she was fine the way she was, there must have been something terribly wrong with her parents. But children need at least the continuing hope that their parents may come to love them. To decide that these crazy parents will never love her, no…

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“Unwilling to tolerate life’s ambiguity, its unresolvability, its inevitability, we search for certainty, demanding that someone else must provide it. Stubbornly, relentlessly, we seek the wise man, the wizard, the good parent, someone else who will show us the way. Surely someone must know. It simply cannot be that life is just what it appears to be, that there are…

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