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.

Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.

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.

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

You don't take insults. You leave them with the insulter.

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

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