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.

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.

Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.

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

Every person's map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint.There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way... So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be.

The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.

Trance is a natural everyday experience.