Maturityโฆ is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.
Paul WatzlawickThat we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to the concept of radical constructivism - is that the only thing we can ever know about the real reality (if it even exists) is what it is not. It is only with the collapse of our constructions of reality that we first discover that the world is not the way we imagine.
Paul WatzlawickIt obviously makes a difference whether we consider ourselves as pawns in a game whose rules we call reality or as players of the game who know that the rules are โrealโ only to the extent that we have created or accepted them, and that we can change them.
Paul WatzlawickThe counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.
Paul Watzlawick