“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… — John Seymour Copy Share
“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
