Sheldon B. Kopp

“Research in self-disclosure supports my own experience that the personal openness of the guru facilitates and invites the increased openness of the…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said,…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

— Sheldon B. Kopp

“Crises marked by anxiety, doubt, and despair have always been those periods of personal unrest that occur at the times when a…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

“Of course, one other hypothetical alternative would have been for the child to decide that since she was fine the way she…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

“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

But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

“You can't get there from here, and besides there's no place else to go.”

— Sheldon B. Kopp

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

— Sheldon B. Kopp

For a long time now I have trusted my dreaming self as wiser than that waking self whose head is cluttered with…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

All significant battles are fought within self.

— Sheldon B. Kopp

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

— Sheldon B. Kopp

“Should he start out on a psychotherapeutic pilgrimage, he sets out on an adventure in narration. The principle of explanation consists of…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

Often things are as bad as they seem.

— Sheldon B. Kopp

“Rules for a group always violate individual rights.”

— Sheldon B. Kopp

“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

He may only get to keep that which he is willing to let go of.

— Sheldon B. Kopp

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances.

— Sheldon B. Kopp

“Whether pilgrim or wayfarer, while seeking to be taught the Truth (or something), the disciple learns only that there is nothing that…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

— Sheldon B. Kopp

“lilt of the synagogue liturgy. She always told the”

— Sheldon B. Kopp