#sheldon b kopp

[honeyandhealing]

you are free to do whatever you like. you need only face the consequences

- sheldon b. kopp

[sugaredge]

favourite books

[1introvertedsage]

We must always see our own feelings of uneasiness as being our chance for 'making the growth choice' rather than the fear choice. ~Sheldon B. Kopp~

[ophelia-network]

“Unwilling to tolerate life’s ambiguity, its unresolvability, its inevitability, we search for certainty, demanding that someone else must provide it. Stubbornly, relentlessly, we seek the wise man, the wizard, the good parent, someone else who will show us the way. Surely someone must know. It simply cannot be that life is just what it appears to be, that there are no hidden meanings, that this is it, just this and nothing more. It’s not fair, not enough! We cannot possibly bear having to live life as it is, without reassurance, without being special, without even being offered some comforting explanations. Come on now! Come across! You’ve got to give us something to make it all right. The medicine tastes lousy. Why should we have to swallow it just because it’s the only thing we can do? Can’t you at least promise us that we will have to take it just once, that it won’t taste that bad, that we will feel just fine immediately afterward, that we will be glad we took it? No? Well then, surely, at least you have to give us a lollipop for being good. But what if we are talking to ourselves? What if there is no one out there listening? What if for each of us the only wise man, the only wizard, the only good parent we will ever have is our own helpless, vulnerable self? What then?” ―Sheldon B. Kopp, If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients

Blood Divided (front cover) by Dan Don Santos

[ophelia-network]

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. Sheldon B. Kopp

Rebecca Yanovskaya

[1introvertedsage]

And should I wear my mask too long, when I take it off and try to discard it, I may find that I have thrown my face away with it.

~Sheldon B. Kopp~

[rainydaywolf]

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

Sheldon B. Kopp

[rainydaywolf]

All of the truly important battles are waged within the self.

Sheldon B. Kopp, If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him