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“Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.”
― Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
― Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
“Love is simultaneous mutual regulation, wherein each person meets the needs of the other, because neither can provide for his own.”
― A General Theory of Love
― A General Theory of Love
“The brevity of mini (psycho)therapies is another efficient forestaller of healing. The neocortex rapidly master didactic information, but the limbic brain takes mountains of repetition. No one expects to play the flute in six lessons or to become fluent in Italian in ten. (189)”
― A General Theory of Love
― A General Theory of Love
“You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“The person of the therapist is the converting catalyst, not his order or credo, not his spatial location in the room, not his exquisitely chosen words or denominational silences. So long as the rules of a therapeutic system do not hinder limbic transmission - a critical caveat - they remain inconsequential, neocortical distractions. The dispensable trappings of dogma may determine what a therapist thinks he is doing, what he talks about when he talks about therapy, but the agent of change is who he is. (187)”
― A General Theory of Love
― A General Theory of Love
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