Sublime

the unconscious intent is to overcome feelings of guilt and worry.

He must have had some of this quality of Brilliancy pulling him toward Zen and eventually toward his development of Gestalt Therapy, which has the same goal.

We are trying to be our rigid self in the middle of just being a relational being interwoven with everything else.

Either way, it has the effect of releasing the coaching client from the default tendency to organize around identity preservation. Our presence means that we provide nothing to resist or defend against.

We have forgotten that all re-birth comes out of death—that a consciously-embraced death experience is the invited moment of rebirth.

relationships matter more than technical expertise.

However, when we are at an impasse, we need new information, especially information about what is missing rather than a summary of what is already there.

Nine who overidentifies with the social role of a peacemaker. His community is harmonious because of his mediation efforts, yet his inner life is like a forgotten garden overgrown with weeds—ignored and disconnected from the whole.

The necessity to perform your identity is plagued with unease. Inside this freely chosen identity, you implicitly or explicitly know that you could be performing another identity.