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Robin Skynner Quotes

To walk, we have to lean forward, lose our balance and begin to fall. We let go constantly of the previous stability, falling all the time, trusting that we will find a succession of new stabilities with each step.

To walk, we have to lean forward, lose our balance and begin to fall. We let go constantly of the previous stability, falling all the time, trusting that we will find a succession of new stabilities with each step.

Robin Skynner
Letting Go, Fall, Balance

The healthier people are, the more they are willing to admit to their limitations and so the more open they are to the possibility of improvement.

Robin Skynner
People, Improvement, Possibility
John Cleese, Robin Skynner (2011). “Life And How To Survive It”, p.61, Random House

Anyone who feels that they're in some way plugged into a meaningful, cosmic system is given a greater psychological balance as a result-whether or not they believe it contains a god-like figure at the control panels. Lots of people have this beneficial sense of being plugged into something bigger, even if they're not religious in the going-to-church-regularly sense.

Robin Skynner
Meaningful, Religious, Believe
Robin Skynner, John Cleese (1984). “Families and how to survive them”, Vintage

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