Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino.

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

Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning.

Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.

You see, we don't know what our goals are. We learn our goals only in the process of getting there. "I don't know what I'm building but I'm going to enjoy building it and when I get through building it I'll know what it is." In doing psychotherapy you impress this upon patients. You don't know what a baby is going to become. Therefore, you take good care of it until it becomes what it will.

You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.

Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.