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Quotes from Eugene T. 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 T. Gendlin
The bad feeling is the body knowing and pushing toward what good would be.
~ Eugene T. Gendlin
All the values we try to formulate are relative to the living process in us and should be measured against it.
~ Eugene T. Gendlin
Chapter II shows how occurring and implying are more intricate than already specified in any patterns or concepts. What we bodily refer to comes before any specific forms. We are always already in a situation that we can bodily feel, even if we don't know how to characterize it in words.
~ Eugene T. Gendlin