Noam Shpancer Quotes

#1. [ ... ] the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems to have died, perhaps is just asleep.

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#2. A therapist who rushes to help forgets to listen.

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#3. The process is important, regardless of the outcome, just ask Schacter.
( ... )mental health ... is not a destination but a process. It's about how you drive, not where you're going. The therapist is like a driving instuctor, not a chauffeur.

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#4. Knowledge imprisons you. You cannot escape it. What you know you cannot unknow. That's why knowledge is dangerous. Learning will redefine your world, irreversibly.

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#5. Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.

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#6. This moment of yours, and the telling of it, these are the tools of navigating the internal space. Knowing the moment and knowing about the moment.

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#7. The choice in this life is not between easy and hard, but between kinds of hardship, between a hardship that gives birth to wisdom, compassion and mercy, and the hardship that keeps on replicating itself to no end.

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#8. There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.

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#9. The good psychologist is ambivalent about people, because he knows well their treacherous nature, their potential for destruction, delusion and deceit.

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#10. It's a story you can break down and analyze and find analogies and lessons in it, and then it becomes a story about life. But you can also experience it whole, and then it's not a story about life. Then it is life.

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