Ernesto Spinelli > Quotes

“Many people, not least those people who come to therapy, convince themselves that there are alternative options to choose where none exist.”
― Ernesto Spinelli, Tales of Un-Knowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective

“... capable of maintaining and advocating a stance which negated all that he had gleaned from his earlier clarifications.”
― Ernesto Spinelli, Tales of Un-Knowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective

“... we may seek to impose severe restrictions upon what, how and when we engage with others so that the risks are statistically minimised.”
― Ernesto Spinelli, Tales of Un-Knowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective

“I am suggesting is that the past, as we remember it, has little to do with causal or determining factors that have in some way made, or influenced, us as we are today. Rather, the remembered past provides us with the means to maintain, or validate, who we are today and to give focus and direction to who we might wish to become at some future point in time.”
― Ernesto Spinelli, Tales of Un-Knowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective

“I am suggesting is that the past, as we remember it, has little to do with causal or determining factos that have in some way made, or influenced, us as we are today. Rather, the remembered past provides us with the means to maintain, or validate, who we are today and to give focus and direction to who we might wish to become at some future point in time.”
― Ernesto Spinelli, Tales of Un-Knowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective

“This dual position suggests a basic tension or 'existential dilemma' in human living that each of us seeks to resolve: the search for, and attempt to construct, a way of being that somehow will balance our unique reflections upon our lived experience with the perceived demands and desires of being-with-others. In this sense, the fundamental project of living, for all of us, becomes the struggle to achieve relational balance between or experience of our own self-construct, our experience of others as we have construed them to be, and our experience of that 'between-ness' that emerges through our every encounter with the world.”
― Ernesto Spinelli