What is gestalt?

Everybody in Gestalt has the same difficulty: how to convey something about what Gestalt is, for the benefit of someone who has had no direct experience of it nor has read anything about it. I must have attempted the task many hundreds of times over the many years I have been involved with Gestalt, and each time I am sure I have said something different – according to what I am thinking about at the time, how I am feeling, who it is I am talking to and in what context we are speaking.