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… — 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
