Guilt says I’ve done something wrong; … shame says there is something wrong with me. Guilt says I’ve made a mistake; … shame says I am a mistake. Guilt says what did was not good; … shame says I am no good.
John Bradshaw
The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker’s mirroring.
John Bradshaw
Surrender to Receiving Support and Love.
Judith Orloff, M.D.
Belonging is our intrinsic state when we are woven together as a village of differences in harmony. We can take the village as a metaphor for the internal life…as well as literally referring to the community of living things on earth. A sickness felt by even one organism in the ecosystem is felt, at some level, by all. The well-being of all, even those who aren’t immediately visible to us, is necessary to our collective prosperity. – Toko-pa Turner (at Notting Hill)
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Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.
Thomas Moore
Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.
Joseph Campbell
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.
Joseph Campbell
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you.
Joseph Campbell
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
Joseph Campbell
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