Gendlin Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I am so grateful for my beautiful life. I am cherished and loved. And I share my love and joy with everyone.

Louise Hay

#4. We will be asked, "what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?"

Yasmin Mogahed

#5. Go out and do the things you are afraid to do gradually. Gain the power to do that through meditating. You will find yourself limitless reality that knows no fear.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting.

Eugene Gendlin

#7. Most scary dreams bring something good which is not yet in a form the person can use.

Eugene Gendlin

#8. 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

#9. Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#10. 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 T. Gendlin

#11. 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

#12. She fastened the invisible corset of her composure snugly around herself and prepared to move forward with her plan.

Amanda Quick

#13. I have to try hard - but I do succeed - to not burst out laughing when he compares my breasts to a perfectly cooked creme brulee - 'souple mais ferme.

Frances Gendlin

#14. 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