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Gestalt Prayer

«I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped.»

(Fritz Perls, 1969)

Я делаю своё дело, а вы-своё.
Вы пришли в этот мир не для того, чтобы жить в соответствии с моими ожиданиями.
Так же, как и я пришел сюда не для того, чтобы оправдать ваши.
Если мы встретимся и поладим — это прекрасно.
Если же нет, то ничего не поделаешь.

«I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.»

«Learning is the discovery that something is possible.»

«Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.»

( a few more quotes: )


(found thanks to andtey) More about Frits Perls here

A silly song from 1992 ("Watson, there'sh a hellhound on the loosh")
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And a parody of three SH adaptations (Vasily Livanov, Robert Downey Jr., and Benedict Cumberbatch):