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I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.
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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.
The message sent is not always the message received.
There are five freedoms: The freedom to see and hear what is; The freedom to say what you feel and think; The freedom to feel what you actually feel; The freedom to ask for what you want; The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.
I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it would be that the event does not determine how to respond to the event. That is a purely personal matter. The way in which we respond will direct and influence the event more than the event itself.
It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.
We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.
As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.
We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.
