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    “Patients are often disappointed to learn that I too wander unredeemed, that I am no better off than they are. Eventually, they may realize comfort implied in my turning out to be just another struggling human being. At least then I can bring a fellow-pilgrim sort of understanding to his journey. Recognition of my all-too-obvious fallibility can provide the relief of learning that some happiness is possible without his having to reach some state of perfection.”

    Sheldon B. Kopp, If You Meet Buddha On The Road, Kill Him! (Page 134)

      “The psychotherapy patient will have to learn to fend for himself, to become a lonely wayfarer whose whole life becomes one long, transforming pilgrimage. Being in treatment may show him the way he is to journey, but it will be up to him to reclaim his salvation continually by remaining on the march for the rest of his life.”

      Sheldon B. Kopp, If You Meet Buddha On The Road, Kill Him! (Page 130)

        “If we flee from the evil in ourselves, we do it at our hazard. All evil is potential vitality in need of transformation. To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.”

        Sheldon B. Kopp, If You Meet Buddha On The Road, Kill Him! (Page 109)

          “No patient in psychotherapy can recover his own beauty and innocence without first facing the ugliness and evil in himself. [Carl] Jung tells us we have ‘dealt the devil… [no] serious blow by calling him neurosis.'”

          Sheldon B. Kopp, If You Meet Buddha On The Road, Kill Him! (Page 105)

            “The therapist is an observer and a catalyst. He has no power to ‘cure’ the patient, for cure is entirely out of his hands. He can add nothing to the patient’s inherent capacity to get well, and whenever he tries to do so he meets stubborn resistance which slows up the progress of treatment. The patient is already fully equipped for getting well.”

            Sheldon B. Kopp, If You Meet Buddha On The Road, Kill Him! (Page 4)