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.

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

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

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

You can pretend anything and master it.

What is easiest to see is often overlooked.

You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.