Great Throughts Treasury

"Thinking and moving are the same thing--don't wait for perfection."

"Up is not a position."

"What are you waiting for? You're setting your head and waiting to get a right position."

"When I help her she relies on her feeling, because then her feelings are freedom and ease."

"When you don't feel some stiffening or pressure, you don't know what to do."

"When you give up--doesn't that mean you were looking for a position?"

"You are all trying to do something, and that something is your habit. All I want is to show you is a little bit of nothing."

"You are not supposed to expect something-- you are supposed to be experimenting."

"You can't tell until you move it. You move it, then you feel it--and that's what you notice. When you fix it--you've lost it."

"You didn't recognize that you could move without the tension you usually associated with forward and up."

"You do have the experience that as you let your head move and body follow, your habits cannot take over."

"You don't want to reproduce the feeling but the mental process."

"You have to do the brainwork."

"You just start helping them from where they are and where their thinking is. The people who are the most difficult to help are the ones who won't talk."

"You stopped that constructive thinking that wouldn't have allowed the habit to take place."

"You'd better talk about a 'preventing', because if you talk about a 'keeping', you will stiffen."

"Your sensory mechanism becomes more and more reliable but you trust your thinking first."

"You've got so many "nots" you'll never undo yourself!"