“It's hard to remember who you were when you're constantly pretending to be someone you're not.”
“Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
Source: Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
“Self-acceptance is a way of viewing oneself compassionately, without condemnation or justification. It is a starting point in life which makes other things possible. It celebrates the fullness of joy of being alive and of being who we are: accepting ourselves, however, does not mean embracing our neuroses or bad habits and celebrating them as if they were virtues. On the contrary, self-acceptance involves loving ourselves enough to accept painful truths about ourselves. . . . Self-acceptance is, at its simplest, the experience of one's self, here and now, as a complete human being, with all the glories and problems that condition entails.”
Source: Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery
“The other thing Elphie finds out, perhaps as important, is that knowledge comes to her without it needing to know what she looks like. Knowledge doesn't care about that. And in erecting for herself this tentative scaffolding of new skills, she discovers that she's losing her ability, or her need, to squirm with that awkward sense of not-right-ness, not-enoughness...The answer establishes itself despite her.”
Source: Elphie: A Wicked Childhood
“The moon doesn’t rush... it doesn’t compare... it doesn’t apologize. It simply follows its path and shines when it’s time.
There’s wisdom in that. Too often we measure our worth against timelines, comparisons, or opinions that have nothing to do with our truth.
The moon reminds us that light doesn’t need validation... it only needs space to shine.
So let yourself breathe... trust your timing... and honor your path. Like the moon, your light will always find a way through the night.”
“Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free. Condemned to this freedom, it is difficult for a man to face the fact that he feels like a misfit in this life, difficult until he discovers the secret that all men, finally, are misfits.”
Source: If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
“You may now forgive yourself.
Justice does not ask for purity.
It asks for fidelity.”
Source: Atlas of Vigils: A Book of Fragments for Those Who Fall, and Choose to Rise Again
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
“The antidote to this trap isn’t becoming selfish. It’s becoming whole. It’s allowing yourself to exist without justification. To rest without guilt. To take up space without proving your worth.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor
“I don't see BL series as any different from other series. I feel like it's a type of series that tells the story of love between two people, where people can choose, love, and be who they want to be.”