We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.
I am continuously struck by how frequently the various thought processes of the inner critic trigger overwhelming emotional flashbacks. This is because the PTSD-derived inner critic weds shame and sel...
We dedicate most of the time worrying about our deficiencies and self-criticism instead of concentrating on our goals and believing in our destination
You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, n...
He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.
Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.
PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.
Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don't belong. You will always find it because you've made that your mission. Stop scouring people's faces for evidence that you're not...
Before thinking about what you are going to say, think about what I am saying.
You've been criticising yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
We are all failures- at least the best of us are.
Flaws.We all have them. BUT, they are all about perception. What I consider as a flaw may not be what someone else considers as a flaw. To me, a flaws is an imperfection or a fault in MY eyes. I consi...
The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself,
The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.
Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before me and see beyond it, in quick succession,...
In this world and the hereafter, we should not be afraid of no one but ourselves.
In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very ‘gifted’ improvisers. Bad improvisers block action, o...
Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.", 1964)
You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.