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He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

Sheldon B. Kopp

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The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy: 'I came to therapy hoping to receive butter for the bread of life. Instead, at the end, I emerged with a pail of sour milk, a churn, and instructions on how to use them.' (138)
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Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am it helps me find my place in the community of man.
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Each of us is ultimately alone.
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For a long time now I have trusted my dreaming self as wiser than that waking self whose head is cluttered with reason and practicalities, so busy trying to control things that he sometimes forgets that the heart has reasons that reason does not know. When I dream, I never forget to trust myself.
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It is not possible to know how much is just enough, until we have experienced how much is more than enough. (64)
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So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.
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Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.
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Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.
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To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.
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One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.
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Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.
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Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.
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If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup.
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He may only get to keep that which he is willing to let go of.
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In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
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I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly.
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So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.
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For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)
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We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.
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