Cloé Madanes wrote in “Rebels with a Cause - honouring the subversive power of psychotherapy Networker July/August 1999 p47

“Satisfying human relationships can be the most healing “medications” of all. … no amount of exercise, mediation, massage, stress reduction or broccoli is an adequate substitute for love and affection for promoting health.”

Barry Duncan, Scott Miller, Jaqueline Sparks wrote in - “Exposing the Mythmakers” Family therapy networker March/April 2000

“What is required is a reconnection to what good therapists already know: that most people can and will develop solutions to even the most daunting dilemmas, given support and encouragement. 

Rather than turning to the magic pill, therapists can access the real magic: the connection created by listening to and exploring their clients' stories, experiences and interpretations of their problems. That rapport, as the sustained power of the much misunderstood and underrated "placebo effect" suggests, can positively affect not only clients' bodies and brain chemistries, but their willingness to act and their sense of who they are and who they can become.

At the core of this approach is our faith that change occurs naturally and almost universally: the human organism, shaped by millennia of evolution and survival, tends to heal and to find a way, even out of the heart of darkness.”

Teresa Robles says “All wounds heal - if we let them”.

Milton Erickson wrote “In the process of living, the price of survival is eternal vigilance and the willingness to learn. The sooner one becomes aware of realities and the sooner one adjusts to them, the quicker is the process of adjustment and the happier the experience of living.” p442 in Haley’s Advanced Techniques

Humbert Maturana wrote “Human beingness is a work of aesthetics as a life lived in loving easy coherence with the cosmos which makes such a life possible.”

Fernando Flores wrote in Disclosing New Worlds p39 “This book, then, is attempting to develop sensitivities, not knowledge. Once one has a sensitivity to something such as good food, decency, certain kinds of beauty, or even the pleasures of hiking, one is already on the path of refining and developing that sensitivity. One sees food, decent behaviour, beauty, and hiking trails in a new light. They draw one to them in a way they did not before. As one is drawn, time and time again, one then continuously develops one's skills for dealing with what one is sensitive to.“

Lao Tzu wrote in Tao te Ching #32 “Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.”

So … we could say … “in the process of living … human beingness can be the work of aesthetics … with the willingness to learn … the sensitivities … of the loving easy coherences … with the Tao ….”