self trust

Forgiveness performed from obligation does two things: it excuses the behavior of others, and it reduces our ability to be conscious and present with the pain we truly feel.

When we rush to forgiveness, we lose our connection to our original wounds.

If you think you have to act a certain way in order to be loved, you’re not actually being loved

You’re being loved for someone you’re pretending to be, and that’s not being loved.

The desire to be special can only exist when you don’t know who you are.

If you can’t say “no” easily, you can’t be trusted.

Hardship. Hard-'ship,' from the Old English word 'sciappan,' which means 'to shape' or 'to make.' Hard things shape us. Hard things make us There’s even wisdom in the words themselves

“Trust but verify” is code for “ya I don’t trust you at all”

I believe that our creativity grows like sidewalk weeds out of the cracks between our pathologies—not from the pathologies themselves. But so many people think it’s the other way around. For this reason, you will often meet artists who deliberately cling to their suffering, their addictions, their fears, their demons. They worry that if they ever l

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