“He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon.”
Source: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Squire's Tale. Edited With Introd. and Notes by A.W. Pollard
“What she didn't know was one of the worst things you can do is take a CN to therapy, especially in the beginning. Here is why: it's like a training ground for them. When the counselor tells them what they are doing wrong, how they are hurting you, it shoes them which part they need to do to impress you as well as others. They do what the therapist suggests, impressing the target and the therapist. Their heart isn't in it, but they act like it is.”
Source: The Covert Passive Aggressive Narcissist: Recognizing the Traits and Finding Healing After Hidden Emotional and Psychological Abuse
“We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.”
Source: Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
“Zelfs in de beklaagdenbank is het altijd interessant om over jezelf te horen praten.”
Source: L'Étranger • La Peste • La Chute • Le Premier Homme
“Aphrodite's mirror is symbolic of a most profound quality of the goddess of love. She frequently offers one a mirror by which one can see one's self, a self hopelessly stuck in projection without the help of the mirror. Asking what is being mirrored back can begin the process of understanding, which may prevent getting stuck in an insoluble emotional tangle. This is not to say there are not outer events. But it is important to realize and understand that many things of our own interior nature masquerade as outer events when they should be mirrored back into our subjective world from which they sprang. Aphrodite provides this mirror more often than we would like to admit. Whenever one falls in love, sees the god or goddess-like qualities in another, it is Aphrodite mirroring our immortality and divine-like qualities. We are as reluctant to see our virtues as our faults and a long period of suffering generally lies between the mirroring and the accomplishment.”
Source: She: Understanding Feminine Psychology
“When you don't know what to do, you must be prepared to do anything and everything, in case it becomes necessary.”
Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“Moving forward we are classifying racism as a mental illness, because it is. My pen will fight for justice.”
“The beauty of life is manifested within our spirituality, preceptive to changes and adaptive to the ever-evolving world around us.”
Source: Honourable Defection
“No human being is empty or deficient at the core, but many live as if they were and experience themselves as primarily that way. Attempting to obliterate the sense of deficiency and emptiness that is a core state of any addict is like laboring to fill in a canyon with shovelfuls of dust. Energy devoted to such an endless and futile task is robbed from one’s psychological and spiritual growth, from genuinely soul-satisfying pursuits, and from the ones we love.”
Source: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
“We are, in a sense, our own parents, and we give birth to ourselves by our own free choice of what is good”
Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The 5 Keys to Mindful Loving Excellent series 1ST