“The truth is, these parts of you are trying to help. They developed to protect you from pain, rejection, or uncertainty. But over time, their strategies may become outdated—like using dial-up internet in a fiber-optic world.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor
“A believer is Satan to Satan.”
“You’re not broken. You’re not defective. You’re just... human. And human means messy. Human means noisy. Human means sometimes having internal conflict that plays out like a bad sitcom with no commercial breaks.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor
“there's something wrong with my ears
I can't shut them like I can shut my eyes”
Source: Open Throat
“Human beauty, in the union of bodies, shows the contrast between the purest aspect of mankind and the hideous animal quality of the sexual organs.”
Source: Erotism: Death and Sensuality
“...history is not a line, but a wound. A festering, septic wound that oozes tragedy and periodically bursts, flooding the present with the pus of old hatreds and long-buried fears”
“The worst part of saying you no longer believe in God is knowing that God is still there, listening to you. That's why the praying sneaks back in when shit goes south. That's why not believing is just standing on the opposite side of the same room you've always been in.”
Source: The Devil Takes You Home
“Casting stones at the perceived irritations of others merely shatters our shadow-self mirror.”
“Survival birthed Man.
Identity divided him”
Source: The Endless Pendulum: Democracy, Right Wing, Left Wing, and The Sacred Conflict of Power
“There's nothing more devious than one's own self, because no one will believe it. And, I admit I had wanted to play the fool, because a fool is easier than one's own self; but since a fool is an extreme, after all, and an extreme sparks curiosity, then I finally settled on my very own self. Well then, what is my very own self? A golden mean: neither stupid, nor intelligent, without any particular gifts, and "dropped from the moon", as the sensible people here say, isn't that so?”
Source: Demons