Milton H. Erickson Quotes

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• Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
• How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind?
• I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!
• Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.
• Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.
• There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.
• You can pretend anything and master it.
• What is easiest to see is often overlooked.
• Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.
• You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.
• When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.
• The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture.…
• You see, we don't know what our goals are. We learn our goals only in the process of getting there You don't know what the…
• Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There…
• The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with…
• Every person's map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint.There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence…
• Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much…
• Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to…
• You can trust the unconscious.
• A goal without a date is just a dream.

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