Sublime

Abraham Maslow, the guru of self-actualization, said that man seeks “to be true to his own nature, to trust himself, to be authentic, spontaneous, honestly expressive, to look for the sources of his action in his own deep inner nature.”

Trust whatever shows up in your awareness even if it doesn’t make any sense or appear to be useful.

Maslow said, “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”17

Buckminster Fuller, though not a psychologist, nevertheless showed his understanding of the principles of CBT when he said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

responsibleness is reflected in the categorical imperative of logotherapy, which is: “Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!’’

The most insignificant man can be complete if he works within the limits of his capacities, innate or acquired; but even fine talents can be obscured, neutralised, and destroyed by lack of this indispensable requirement of symmetry.

When I began working with the sentence-completion technique, I found the way to demonstrate easily, to myself and my clients, the functional utility of much of their self-condemnation. The essence of the sentence-completion technique is that the client is given a sentence stem by the therapist and asked to keep repeating the stem, adding a differen

Parts are often frozen in past traumas when their extreme roles were needed.

The neo-Freudians, the ego psychologists, deal mainly with the deficiency of Value and self-esteem, the deficiencies of the various flavors of Love that come from object relationships, and the deficiency that results from the absence of the Personal Essence, which is true individuality.