Dissociative identity disorder is conceptualized as a childhood onset, posttraumatic developmental disorder in which the child is unable to consolidate a unified sense of self. Detachment from emotion...
We want autonomy for ourselves and safety for those we love. That remains the main problem and paradox for the frail. Many of the things that we want for those we care about are things that we would a...
To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it.
To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid, singular self would dissolve and you could forget about it. What a relief. You could just hang out...
You must step forward, Arutha. You will never be the man for whom you were named, and you will never be your father, but nature didn't intend for you to be either of those men, no matter how worthy th...
There is nothing better in life than commitment to personal development and lifelong learning.
Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's face as it is today are all those other faces which were his.
I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do.
So—I went on, on my own—deeper and deeper into the silent Tunnel of the Ride—not so sure of where I was and yet not anxious either, not concerned about my companions nor even about the nearness of—cer...
Beautiful moments in life need no words for description. Living those moments and feeling the beauty suffices.
They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.
One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.
In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.
I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.
He has never told anyone this story. He doesn't mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past--within reason--but he doesn't mean to give away pieces of himself.
I will, without hesitation, walk away from anything and anyone that threatens my peace or sense of self.
If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.
In heated rooms, he often felt the outlines of his body, the border between him and the external world, grow disturbingly fuzzy.
And then, just when I know I can live content without Shug, just when Mr. ___ done ast me to marry him again, this time in the spirit as well as in the flesh, and just after I say, Naw, I still don't...
To give value to others, you have to begin by valuing yourself.