#counsel

When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#camp #counselor #differently #good #had

If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes. ↗

— George Muller

#counsel #declarations #did #fellow-men #god

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder? ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#amid #contending #counsel #doubted #forward

Should you operate upon your clients as objects, you risk reducing them to less than human. Following the culture of appropriation and mastery your clients become a kind of extension of yourself, of your ego. In the appropriation and objectification mode, your clients’ well-being and success in treatment reflect well upon you. You “did” something to them, you made them well. You acted upon them and can take the credit for successful therapy or treatment. Conversely, if your clients flounder or regress, that reflects poorly on you. On this side of things the culture of appropriation and mastery says that you are not doing enough. You are not exerting enough influence, technique or therapeutic force. What anxiety this can breed for some clinicians! DBT offers a framework and tools for a treatment that allows clients to retain their full humanity. Through the practice of mindfulness, you can learn to cultivate a fuller presence to the moments of your life, and even with your clients and your work with them. This presence potentiates an encounter between two irreducible human beings, meeting professionally, of course, and meeting humanly. The dialectical framework, which embraces contradictions and gives you a way of seeing that life is pregnant with creative tensions, allows for your discovery of your limits and possibilities, gives you a way of seeing the dynamic nature of reality that is anything but sitting still; shows you that your identity grows from relationship with others, including those you help, that you are an irreducible human being encountering other irreducible human beings who exert influence upon you, even as you exert your own upon them. Even without clinical contrivance. ↗

— Scott E. Spradlin

#being #counseling #dbt #humanity #kindness

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#creation #exhausted #fail #father #final

I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#because #before #better #brother #counselor

Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#advice #best #clearly #cost #counsel

At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony. ↗

— Robert Luskin

#discuss #his #mr #request #rove

Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them. ↗

— Immaculee Ilibagiza

#education #humility #wisdom #education

Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time. ↗

— Pericles

#counselors #country-foods #good #happy #joy