The Litany of Gendlin:
What is true is already so.
Owning up to it doesn’t make it worse.
Not being open about it doesn’t make it go away.
And because it’s true, it is what is there to be interacted with.
Anything untrue isn’t there to be lived.
People can stand what is true,
for they are already enduring it.
What’s true already is the case, not worse from owning up. To not be open anyways will never make it stop.
Because it’s real, it is there for interaction with. What is untrue cannot be where there’s truth that we can live.
And we can stand reality, the truth that we admit. We know because we’re already in fact enduring it.
Talk:Litany of Gendlin
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Does anyone know where in Gendlin’s writings this can be found? In particular, I’m wondering if it was a poem (or “litany”) originally, or if it’s just been formatted that way.
--Zeke 20:03, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Page 140 of the 2nd edition of Focusing. It was not a poem originally.
--Vaniver 17:31, 11 June 2012 (UTC)