“What happens to our thoughts as we clothe them in language, and how faithfully are they preserved when our listeners undress them?” — John Seymour Copy Share Image
“Any single person's viewpoint will have blind spots caused by their habitual ways of perceiving the world, their perceptual filters...How can we shift our perceptions to get outside our own limited world view?” — John Seymour Copy Share Image
“What happens to our thoughts as we clothe them in language, and how faithfully are they preserved when our listeners undress them?” — John Seymour Copy Share Image
“We all have beliefs and expectations from our personal experience; it is impossible to live without them. Since we have to make some assumptions,… — John Seymour Copy Share Image
“To believe that someone else is responsible for your emotional state is to give them a sort of psychic power over you they do… — John Seymour Copy Share Image
“I'm only a housewife, I'm afraid." How often do we hear this shocking admission. I'm afraid when I hear it I feel very angry indeed. Only a housewife: only a practitioner of one of the two most noble professions (the other one is that of a farmer); only the mistress of a huge battery of high and varied skills and… — John Seymour Copy Share
“Words are anchors for sense experience, but the experience is not the reality, and the word is not the experience. Language is thus two… — John Seymour Copy Share Image
“Why' questions have little value, at best they get justifications or long explanations which do nothing to change the situation.” — John Seymour Copy Share Image
“Any single person's viewpoint will have blind spots caused by their habitual ways of perceiving the world, their perceptual filters...How can we shift our… — John Seymour Copy Share Image
“Questions are also interventions. A good question can take a person's mind in a completely new direction and change his life. For example, ask… — John Seymour Copy Share Image
“No one can consistently get everything wrong. Such perfection does not exist.” — John Seymour Copy Share Image
