You are both a force of psychotherapy and psychopathology
Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and warm, is a psychotheraputic force, even though a small one.
Your example
- Go and see the roses again. You will understand that yours is unique in the world. You will return to ...
We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them.
Yet, certainly, the wise learn many things from their enemies; for caution preserves all things. From a friend you could not learn this, but your foe immediately obliges you to learn it. For example, the states have learned from enemies, and not from friends, to build lofty walls, and to possess ships of war. And this lesson preserves children, house, and possessions.
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
But again self-discipline was the great help. I had to learn to face people and I could not do it ...
