Eugene Gendlin quotes
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“Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to use the body's own inherently positive direction and force.”
-- Eugene GendlinSource : "Secrets Your Body May Not be Sharing" by Marilyn Harding, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2017.
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“What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.”
-- Eugene GendlinSource : "Focusing". Book by Eugene Gendlin, 1978.
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“Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness”
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“You can have lots of feelings and have the same feelings over and over again. It isn't the recognizable feelings that make so much difference. It is sensing the edge, the unclear, what you don't recognize, but it is there, the bodily discomfort that the problem makes, which has meaning; it has its own peculiar quality, implicity, it is complex, it has in it everything that relates to that problem, but not in a way you can say.”
-- Eugene GendlinSource : Source: www.focusing.org
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“Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.”
-- Eugene GendlinSource : Source: www.focusing.org
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“If there is something hauntingly beautiful or impressive in your dream, just honor it, respect it, recall it, sense it with your body. More will come.”
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“Most scary dreams bring something good which is not yet in a form the person can use.”
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“Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting.”
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“I will not let you (or me) make me dishonest, insincere, emotionally tied-up or constricted, or artificially nice and social, if I can help it.”
-- Eugene Gendlin
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“Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.”
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Source : Ada Cambridge, “Honour”
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“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”
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Source : "Toy boys r us" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. March 26, 2010.
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“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”
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