You can pretend anything and master it.

How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind?

Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves.

Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.

The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them.

You can pretend anything and master it.

There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.