Morita’s famous sayings

1. Psychological counselors must be sensitive, eternal, and creative. This is a creation based on systematic learning and extensive exposure.

2. Authority is worthless, theory is gray, method is pale, effect is our only pursuit, and the only criterion for testing therapy is efficacy.

3. We should not look at people based on their ground, but based on their personality and behavior. If we can transcend some stereotypes, our understanding of human nature will be more real.

4. Deal with first-class people more often. In any field, first-class people must have their own first-class methods.

5. If you think with your heart, things will not happen; if you think with your hands, things will happen. Tsuneo Okamoto has a spirit that is worth learning from, and he will do it once he understands it.

6. Morita therapy is essentially a kind of re-education of life.

7. Mental health means taking responsibility for your own destiny.

8. Follow the rules on the road of life and drive toward the light with symptoms.

9. The key to success is to drive according to the rules.

10. If we want to learn the true scriptures of any therapy, we must give up our prejudices and study with an empty bowl.

11. Destiny does not depend on character. Character determines the color of fate. Color is the priority, high and low.

12. The most beautiful thing in psychology is not turned into the words on the mouth, but into the footprints under the feet. Only the footprints are valuable.

13. Morita therapy or Vipassana therapy or any kind of good psychotherapy or integrated psychotherapy, if it wants to solve any problem, the most fundamental thing is to help us step by step from self-centeredness. To be other-centered and society-centered means to complete a fundamental change in life attitude.

14. Life grows in rules and gets sick in violations.

15. The way to success is not to rush.

16. What ultimately determines our happiness? It is the belief and evaluation of this matter.

17. What is a sense of security? The sense of security is definitely not about being better than others, the characteristic is the sense of security.

18. Desire is a mountain, and behind it is fear.

19. The symptoms themselves are a lie.

20. Perfection equals failure.

21. Attention to symptoms is the backbone of symptoms.

22. What is a mental disorder? Mental disorders are the loss of freedom.

23. What is difficult about psychotherapy? The difficulty lies not in being self-centered or being sentimental, but in being self-righteous.

24. You can become an expert if you want to. If you have been working on one topic for several years, more than ten years, or even decades, and you have a decent mentor, There is also a bunch of social support systems. If you are not an expert, that would be weird!

25. The most terrifying belief in life is that I can’t do it, I really can’t do it, I absolutely can’t do it, and something is going to happen.

26. Just like the Mongolian girls and boys, open your mouth, open your arms, draw your bow, mount your horse, and gallop in the wilderness of life. free.

27. A concept invented by Morita Masama: the desire for life. This life is the desire for life and death, survival, living, promotion, and sublimation. It is a desire for better and better. a motivation for life.

28. The purpose of Morita’s psychotherapy is to break this interaction, just like two slaps, one slaps and the other makes a sound. So how does one slap make a sound? By not providing him with a counterpoint, it ceases to be the symptom you think it is.

29. People have the ability to remember something, but they do not have the ability to deliberately forget something.

30. If our physical life is a car, our essence is this oil.

31. The process of psychological counseling is a process of creating conditions and triggering the other party to make choices.

32. There is an absolute principle in psychology—the principle of supremacy of life.

33. As a counselor, when facing a client, what is unconditional acceptance? The first account is to unconditionally comply with the nature of his emotions and emotions.

34. What determines happiness and joy in life are actually emotions and emotions.

35. Listening is better than teaching, and clarification is better than solving.

36. Disease is the punishment for bad habits.

37. How to solve the problem of the elderly being troubled? The mind should be broad and the affairs should be few.

38. As long as you care about the book Nature, you will understand it in your life.

39. In the face of natural pain, the only valuable help for people is the company of good intentions.

40. If you leave emotions alone, that is, obey their natural changes, they will form a mountain-shaped curve, which will rise and fall, and finally disappear.

41. If emotions satisfy their impulses, they will disappear.

42. If you are accustomed to the same feeling, your emotions will become dull.

43. Emotions will become stronger if they continue to be stimulated and the attention is focused at this time.

44. Emotions rely on new experiences to be experienced and are cultivated through repeated experiences.

45. Morita Psychological Training talks about the principles of psychotherapy. The core thing is to teach us a skill: separation technology, which is to practice separating emotions and actions.

46. Good deeds have their own rewards.

47. The principle of four no’s and one no’s, these four don’ts are called don’t pursue, don’t reject, don’t withhold, don’t cover up, and one of them means letting things take their own course.

48. Good feeling happens incidentally. It is an occasional happy experience based on good emotions, good things, good processes, good effects and good details.

49. Who are you? What personality? Just live according to this. As long as your heart is kind, your purpose is kind, and your results are kind, live however you like!

50. The most common problem in psychological training is giving up midway, and giving up midway is exactly a symptom or a consequence of psychological disorder.

51. When you put all your energy into an operation, there is no tension.

52. Relief from boredom.

53. One if and one but can crush people from the fiery life.

54. If you can give up once, you can give up again and again.

55. The four stages of Morita training are likened by scholars to the four condensed stages of life: What are you lying on? Baby; what are you getting up for? Adolescence; what is light homework? When you become an adult; you have to do heavy homework and take on the burden of family life; you have to be trained in social life and you have to be able to handle the whole life with ease! Condensed major stages of life.

56. It is easy to write long-winded things in life, but it is difficult to write simple things.

57. The training process is like a symphony. You should slow down, hurry up when you are urgent, stop when you need to stop, and stop when you stop.

58. "Why?" is a psychological word that creates endless troubles and disputes.

59. Ordinary people are always easy to fall out with each other. If one person is good, it is good, but if one person is bad, it is not good.

60. What we can’t get with gentleness, we can’t get with roughness.

61. As a counselor, we cannot be loyal to any therapy, therapy school or guru. We must be loyal to the fundamental interests of the client, that is, loyal to him in solving the key problems that hinder a happy life.

62. A very core training purpose of lying down training is to train your acceptance ability.

63. Accept what cannot be changed and change what can be changed.

64. What is neurosis? He is extremely persistent on things that cannot be changed, and does nothing on things that should and can be changed.

65. There is love in the heart and work in the eyes.

66. Sensitivity is not innate, it is accumulated, resulting from quantitative changes to qualitative changes.

67. Seducing but not confusing, shaking but not swaying, this is Morita’s true skill.

68. Perfection equals doom. We must break through the hypocrisy, hypocrisy and hypocrisy of perfectionism.

69. Break through subjective barbarism in experience.

70. Breaking through the self means no longer being bound by feelings, but being accompanied by feelings.

71. Don’t always take your feelings seriously.

72. Steady is healthy, slow is successful.

73. The criterion for testing truth is practice. If your feelings were used as the criterion, wouldn’t the world be in chaos?

74. Persistence is the effect itself. The symptoms are called giving up, and the effects are called persistence.

75. Remaining distant is a kind of space art, and forgetting each other in the world is a broad mind.

76. What kind of charm can you not resist? There is nothing you can do about someone who thinks she is noble. Because she thinks she is noble, she will not show off her nobility.

77. Morita therapy stimulates vitality, while Vipassana therapy stimulates true feelings.

78. Summarize the purpose of this Morita therapy: spread your ideas widely, and control them with actions.

79. We use it ourselves first. If we use it well, we can use it for others.

80. If you want to straighten your mind, you must first have plastic surgery. Its literal meaning is: if you want to be in a good mood, you must have a good appearance. The deep meaning is to regulate psychology through behavior.

81. If you want to straighten your mind, you must first reshape it. It subverts a principle and puts forward a new theory: psychology must be controlled by behavior.

82. When emotions are dragged away by actions, he is the master of emotions; when actions are dragged away by emotions, he is the slave of emotions.

83. When people make beautiful and noble efforts in action, their hearts follow their hearts.

84. People who use reason to guide life can easily become leaders of life, at least their own masters.

85. A person’s psychological maturity depends on the degree of adjustment, separation and integration of his mood and behavior.

86. Turn the dirty into the pure and calm your mind.

87. To love beauty is to love life, to love beauty is to love life.

88. We are not responsible for principles, we are responsible for the real interests of our visitors.

89. For self-related matters, self-feeling is very important, but in relationships with others, when you interact with others, others feel very important.

90. What is the backbone of life? Life! The principle of supremacy of life.

91. Grasp the main body and branches. In consultation, the first principle is life first, the second is health first, the third is freedom of choice, and the fourth is emotional life.

92. Educational success is the bird that makes him fly.

93. Consultation is not an art of speaking, nor is it an art of listening, but an art of caring for others.

94. Behind any mental illness, there are interpersonal problems.

95. The purpose of our psychological counseling, psychological training, psychological education, and psychotherapy is to make the best use of one's life.

96. Exclamation marks are used for phobias, question marks are used for hypochondriacs, and ellipses are often used for depression and anxiety.

97. Healthy people make good use of periods, turning over yesterday’s past, beginning today’s, and preparing for tomorrow’s.

98. The core of making good use of punctuation is to use periods when they should be used, periods when they should be used, exclamation marks when they should be used, and omissions when they should be omitted. The most important thing is to be good at using periods. .

99. To care is to observe and shine, which means to penetrate.

100. People have the same body, and the body has the same feelings; people have the same heart, and the heart has the same spirit.

101. Do small things. What does this small thing mean? Small things are to overcome a kind of worry about gain and loss.

102. Doing small things is cultivating big character. If you can't do small things and don't do big things, then you can only enjoy life without success.

103. Morita Masama particularly emphasizes the training of things. Doing things itself has value: it produces the ability to do things, the endurance to do things, and the interest in doing things, and then you can do something valuable. Things and some worthless things, you will gradually become valuable.

104. If you pursue absolute fairness, you will not be able to survive even for a minute.

105. The essential difference between humans and animals lies in labor.

106. The word "should" is prepared for yourself.

107. We educate our children not to be too impatient when it comes to doing good things, and not to take over all the labor matters. This way our children will have full opportunities to be human beings.

108. The essence of mental illness is the lack of love. Suicide and homicide are the complete loss of love.

109. Why are Vipassana therapy and Morita therapy effective? In a way, the love he originally had can sprout and stir, and love can become the driving force of life.

110. Love is the driving force for learning, and goals are the traction for learning.

111. Bravery is the attitude of not being afraid of terrible things. -Kant

112. We must first distinguish whether this is a problem? Are the trunk, branches and leaves of his life related to life? Secondly, figure out whose problem it is? Thirdly, we need to distinguish who should be anxious about this matter?

113. We counselors want to help others. Before helping others, we must also protect ourselves. Protection is not selfish. Only when we protect ourselves healthily can we effectively protect each other.

114. All painful families are the same, they are useless. Happy families each have their own happiness.

115. As long as a happy person lives, he will always have his happiness, and happiness is in the details.

116. Stupidity is the amplification of troubles, and wisdom is the sensitivity to happiness.

117. Any choice is giving up! If you don't have the heart to give up, you don't have the right to choose happiness.

118. Time is like this. The more you prepare, the less you waste.

119. Ideal-based people are the source of distress. Ideal-based people do not pursue ideals. They fantasize about the instant realization of their ideals.

120. Acceptance is the great art and key word of Morita therapy.

121. The time when we live best is precisely when we work the hardest.

122. Tiredness of life is not a concept of the amount of labor, but a concept of the heart of labor. The unwillingness is the source of tiredness.

123. All resources are limited, and any waste is a crime against future generations.

124. Happiness is not the result itself, nor is it a simple process. Happiness is in the process from process to result. If you work hard, you will get there!

125. It is very easy to become a healthy person, but a patient must make persistent efforts.

126. To live like a healthy person, he must have continuity.

127. Masama Morita gives a standard of happiness. Great! Hope. His standard is operable, with just one word: "new". Morita Masama believes that as long as he ensures something new every day, he will still be happy even if he suffers from cancer.

128. Disease is the loss of purpose.

129. There are countless embarrassing things in life, the most difficult thing is to be affectionate or ruthless.

130. To be optimistic is to think about things in a positive way. There are two ways of thinking: not thinking about things and thinking about things.

131. Don’t forget the mountain curve. Your pain can pass. As long as you hold on, as long as you are natural, as long as you adapt, as long as you do what you should do, it will pass.

132. If the children can thank their parents for their upbringing, and if the parents can thank their children for bringing you endless joy, big and small, when they kick your belly since you were pregnant, then this would be It's called a happy life, whether you are in the palace or in hell.

133. Words of gratitude never leave your mouth, and gratitude never leaves your heart.