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• We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

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  Language, Translate, Persons

  Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.46, Ardent Media

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• I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!

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  Positivity, Dying, Lasts

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• You can trust the unconscious.

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  Consciousness, Unconscious

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• When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.

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  Imperfect, Wanted, Knows

  Milton H. Erickson (1980). “The Nature of Hypnosis and Suggestion”, Halsted Press

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• Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.

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  Past, Long, Understanding

  Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.119, Ardent Media

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• The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them.

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  Reading, Book, Knowing

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• How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind?

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  Appreciation, Appreciate, Mind

  Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.79, Ardent Media

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• Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.

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  Dream, Communication, Thinking

  Milton H. Erickson, Ronald A. Havens (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy”, p.63, Ardent Media

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• Trance is a natural everyday experience.

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  Everyday, Natural, Trance

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• You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.

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  Piano, Swim, Benches

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• I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.

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  Confidence, Looks, Way

  Milton H. Erickson, Jeffrey K. Zeig (1980). “Teaching Seminar with Milton H. Erickson, M.D.”, p.61, Psychology Press

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• Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.

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  Difficulty

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• The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?

  Milton H. Erickson

  Ego, Conscious, Unconscious

  Milton H. Erickson (1980). “The Nature of Hypnosis and Suggestion”, Halsted Press

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• As for my dignity... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.

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  World, Dignity, Hell

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• Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning.

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  Littles, Humans, Known

  Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.72, Ardent Media

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• Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!

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  Silence, Shut Up, Chairs

  Milton H. Erickson, Ronald A. Havens (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy”, p.10, Ardent Media

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