A lot of times, rather than helping people with horse problems, I'm helping horses with people problems.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the idea that many issues with horses stem from the behavior and mindset of their owners rather than the animals themselves.
Buck Brannaman's quote emphasizes the notion that the root cause of many horse-related challenges often lies in the relationship between the horse and its owner. Instead of just addressing the horse's issues, he finds that much of his work involves guiding the owners to understand themselves better and improve their interactions with their horses. This speaks to the broader theme of how personal behavior and emotional health can significantly impact our relationships with others, whether human or animal.
In practice
In a seminar on horsemanship, this quote can be used to emphasize the importance of self-awareness in training.
I've started horses since I was 12 years old and have been bit, kicked, bucked off and run over. I've tried every physical means to contain my horse in an effort to keep from getting myself killed. I started to realize that things would come much easier for me once I learned why a horse does what he does.
She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of a relationship, but in fact we are just deceiving ourselves. The two will remain two. Howsoever near, the two will remain two. Even in sexual communion they will be two. This two-ness, this duality will never last. So a relationship is only creating a fallacious oneness. It is not there. Oneness can never exist between two selves. Oneness can only exist between two no-selves.
He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.
Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.
How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.
I want to help transgender individuals who might be struggling realize that they have to love themselves and stay true to who they are because if they keep moving forward, and keep a positive attitude, then things will get better.
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