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• Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.

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

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• The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy: ‘I came to therapy hoping to receive butter for the bread of life. Instead, at the end, I emerged with a pail of sour milk, a churn, and instructions on how to use them.’

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

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• Parents who were themselves raised with too little attention given to their own early feelings, if they have not worked out the resulting emotional problems in subsequent years, often look forward to having children of their own so that the children will make them happy.

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• The most insidious of the premature responsibilities that may be foisted onto some children is the expectation that the child is somehow supposed to take care of his parents, rather than the other way around.

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• You can’t get there from here, and besides there’s no place else to go.

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• Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.

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• The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs neither since he does not live long enough to need to eat.

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• The eggs the May fly leaves hatch after the parent has died. What is it all about. What’s the point? There is no point. That’s just the way it is. It is neither good nor bad. Life is mainly simply inevitable.

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• He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.

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• 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 man, remain in exile, and belong to himself.

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• I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he wouldn’t like the idea of having to solve problems every day for the rest of his life.

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• It is, of course, necessary to have rules and procedures if we wish to accomplish large and complex tasks, but the question of whether or not it is worth the cost must be perennially re-examined.

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• My co-therapist told him that it was not required that he like it. She shared her own displeasure, saying: ‘I remember that when I first discovered what life was like, I was furious. I guess I’m still kind of mad sometimes.’

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• Crises marked by anxiety, doubt, and despair have always been those periods of personal unrest that occur at the times when a man is sufficiently unsettled to have an opportunity for personal growth.

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• Research in self-disclosure supports my own experience that the personal openness of the guru facilitates and invites the increased openness of the pilgrim.

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• Should he start out on a psychotherapeutic pilgrimage, he sets out on an adventure in narration. The principle of explanation consists of getting the story told – somehow, anyhow – in order to discover how it begins.

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• We must always see our own feelings of uneasiness as being our chance for “making the growth choice rather than the fear choice.

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• We will call out to each other in the darkness of the Great Forest, so that we may not be lost to one another.

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Sheldon Kopp (47)

Birth:	29th March, 1929
Death:	29th March, 1999
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Psychologist

About

Sheldon Kopp was a psychotherapist and author, based in Washington, D.C.. He was born in New York City, and received his PhD from the New School for Social Research. In addition to his private practice, he served as a Psychotherapy Supervisor for the Pastoral Counselling and Consultation Centres in Washington. He died of cardiac arrhythmia and pneumonia. He is also popular for his quotes. One of them is, "All of the significant battles are waged within the self."

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