Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.

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

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.

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.

People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.