“Only pains of life too intense to be borne could lead a man to forgo all response, to give up completely the… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free. — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships.… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
“Unwilling to tolerate life’s ambiguity, its unresolvability, its inevitability, we search for certainty, demanding that someone else must provide it. Stubbornly, relentlessly,… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is. — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
“It is, of course, necessary to have rules and procedures if we wish to accomplish large and complex tasks, but the question… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
There appear to be many people who chose to go crazy (or become alcoholics, addicts, criminals, suicides) rather than have to bear… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy:… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
“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)” — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free. — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
“Crises marked by anxiety, doubt, and despair have always been those periods of personal unrest that occur at the times when a man is… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
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… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
“Of course, one other hypothetical alternative would have been for the child to decide that since she was fine the way she was, there… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
“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… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else.… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
“You can't get there from here, and besides there's no place else to go.” — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
