It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways you build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to...
Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.
Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.
Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.
One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people...
Most people do not erode their self-esteem over big issues but over small ones, little acts of betrayal and hypocrisy forgotten (repressed) very quickly. But the computer in your subconscious mind for...
The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives--inherently militates against self-esteem. The very notion of guilt without volition or respo...
Excuses are a promise of repetition.
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their se...
Pulse proximity is not intimacy.
The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.
The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality
We must have the self-knowledge of our destiny and the purpose of our birth on earth
Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?
One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.
Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality.
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