47 Quotes by Sheldon B. Kopp

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly.

If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup.

Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what’s happening head-on all of the time.

Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.

The most important things that each man must learn, no one else can teach him. Once he accepts this disappointment, he will be able to stop depending on the therapist, the guru who turns out to be just another struggling human being.

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to give.

So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim’s sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.