Quote by 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 pilgrim. (24)”

— 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, but he…

— 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 man is…

— 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 you your…

— 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 present, when…

— 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 it, and…

— 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 was, there…

— 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, we seek…

— 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 anyone else.…

— 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 his own…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

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

— Sheldon B. Kopp