"It may be possible through detachment, to gain……" — Harry Stack Sullivan
"It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful."
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15 Quotes by Harry Stack Sullivan
Harry Stack Sullivan has 15 quotes on this site.
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There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price…
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I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to…
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When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that…
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All of us are much more human than otherwise
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If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
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What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my…
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The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says;…
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It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way…
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When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security,…
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Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
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If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is…
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What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never…
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More Detachment Quotes
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience,…
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When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls…
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...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas -…
— Charlton Ogburn
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the…
— Ramana Maharshi
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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.
— Radhanath Swami
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My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.
— Rajneesh
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We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself…
— Mother Teresa
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Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally,…
— Robert Bly
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