Aug 18, 2025
If we accept ourselves and each other as form-makers, we will no longer need to force forms on ourselves or each other.
Eugene Gendlin
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If we accept ourselves and each other as form-makers, we will no longer need to force forms on ourselves or each other.
Eugene Gendlin
When I use the word "body," I mean more than the physical machine. Not only do you physically live the circumstances around you but also those you only think of in your mind. Your physically felt body is in fact part of a gigantic system of here and other places, now and other times, you and other people–in fact, the whole universe. This sense of being bodily alive in a vast system is the body as it is felt from inside.
[Eugene Gendlin: Focusing]
I started feeling a bit like that after realizing that mind and consciousness are different things
The Litany of Gendlin:
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 Gendlin
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.
It's O.K. to need. Trying not to have a need that you do in fact have makes a lot of trouble. Even if you can't get it, don't fight needing it."
Eugene Gendlin, Focusing
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 Gendlin
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 Gendlin