So if you find out how you prevent yourself from growing, from using your potential, you have away of increasing this, making life richer, making you more and more capable of mobilizing yourself. And our potential is based upon a very peculiar attitude: to live and review every fresh second
Frederick Salomon PerlsI am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
Frederick Salomon PerlsYou are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
Frederick Salomon PerlsI believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
Frederick Salomon PerlsI do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
Frederick Salomon PerlsLearning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy.
Frederick Salomon Perls