Allyssa
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Eights aren’t afraid to feel—they’re afraid their feelings will betray them.
“All you can possibly need or desire is already yours. You need no helper to give it to you; it is yours now. Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled. As the end is accepted, you become totally indifferent as to possible failure, for acceptance of the end wills the means to that end. When you emerge from the moment of prayer, it is as though you were shown the happy and successful end of a play although you were not shown how that end was achieved. However, having witnessed the end, regardless of any anticlimactic sequence, you remain calm and secure in the knowledge that the end has been perfectly defined.”
― Feeling is the Secret
― Feeling is the Secret
“Confidence is being okay being bad, not being okay being good.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to reinfect yourself. “Let the dead bury the dead” [Matthew 8:22; Luke 9:60]. Turn from appearances and assume the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you wish to be.”
― Feeling is the Secret
― Feeling is the Secret
“I will argue that, in fact, we don’t; and that thinking we do know who we are is part of the problem.”
― The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge
― The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
― The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
― The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
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