Eugene Gendlin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 Gendlin

#Pain #Knowing #People
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 Gendlin

#Integrity #People #Going Away
Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness
-- Eugene Gendlin

#Moving #Space #Giving
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 Gendlin

#Differences #Feelings #Making A Difference
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 Gendlin

#Philosophy #Understanding #Reports
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.
-- Eugene Gendlin

#Beautiful #Dream #Honor
Most scary dreams bring something good which is not yet in a form the person can use.
-- Eugene Gendlin

#Dream #Scary #Use
Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting.
-- Eugene Gendlin

#Dream #Important #Enjoy
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

#Nice #Helping #Social

In my opinion, everybody has the same soul from God and we are united by that. Outside, our bodies are different, our faces are different, but inside we are all the same, we share the same feelings of sadness, love, pain My music comes out of these feelings. Whether it is Japanese music, African, Qawalli, or any other form of music, if it touches your heart it becomes important for me.
Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
Wherefor are you knowing it? If you stacked all of the Gorg in the galaxy on top of eachother, the Gorg would kill you.
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

Eugene Gendlin famous quotes

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