Milton Erickson

"If a person wants to change the course of the river, if he opposes the river by trying to block it, the river will merely go over and around him.  But if he accepts the force of the river and diverts it in a new direction, the force of the river will cut a new channel."  Haley Jay, Uncommon Therapy; the Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H Erickson, M.D. New York:  Norton 1973