Quotes

Shame is an emotion that we experience when we've violated some social norm, or some perceived social norm we fear that we have, and we've got to keep our actions secret. Because to reveal them could lead to being cast out of the community or some terrible repercussions. That's how important belonging is.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

- Mary Oliver

you don't think your way into a new way of behaving. You behave your way into a new way of thinking.

Don’t turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged place. That’s where the Light enters you. —Rumi (1995)

“The wolrld is not here to make you happy. It’s here to awaken you” - eckhart tolle

“if something seems weird. it is weird.”

Authors should not write from their wounds, they should write from their scars” - Nadia Bolz-Webber

“you can't solve problems at the level in which the problems were created.“ - einstein

what we pay attention to, grows.