Quotes

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

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.

“Between the stimulus and response there is a space. In that space it is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom” -Victor E. Frankl

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

Robin Williams - I used to think that the worst thing in life is to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel alone.

“People are always looking for happiness at some future time and in some new thing, or some new set of circumstances, in possession of which they some day expect to find themselves. But the fact is, if happiness is not found now, where we are, and as we are, there is little chance of it ever being found. There is a great deal more happiness around... See more

"[Differentiation] consists of developing personal and authentic emotionally engaged relationships with each member of the family and changing one's part in the old repetitious, dysfunctional emotional patterns to the point at which one is able to state, calmly and nonreactively, one's personal view of important emotional issues, regardless of who... See more

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The clearer you are about your priorities, the easier it is to say no.