“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
This beautiful quote makes me think of how sometimes in couple therapy, in our attempt to help struggling couples, we focus on assigning tasks and work. Instead, learning to long for the depth of connection, we can make a paradigm shift from how can I get what I want to how can we get what
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In Antoine de Saint Exupery’s The Little Prince there is a dialogue between the little prince and a fox, which for me describes beautifully how a relationship is cultivated. Here is an excerpt, no extra words needed.
Simone de Beauvoir said, ‘One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.’ She was right in that other people make our life meaningful and
One of psychotherapy’s aims is to help people to become more aware of how and why they do what they do and potentially offer additional ways of engaging with others and improving the quality of a person’s life.
This was written on a wall in a London restaurant/ bike shop. As it was not signed, I give it an anonymous credit. I was inspired and touched when I read it.