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“...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...”
― A Familiar Rain
― A Familiar Rain
“1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us.
2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us.
3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. These three reasons have one thing in common: they see people as “bigger” (that is, more powerful and significant) than God, and, out of the fear that creates in us, we give other people the power and right to tell us what to feel, think, and do.”
― When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man
2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us.
3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. These three reasons have one thing in common: they see people as “bigger” (that is, more powerful and significant) than God, and, out of the fear that creates in us, we give other people the power and right to tell us what to feel, think, and do.”
― When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man
“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you.”
― The Emotionally Destructive Relationship: Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It
― The Emotionally Destructive Relationship: Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It
“The psyche cannot tolerate a vacuum of love. In the severely abused or deprived child, pain, dis-ease, and violance rush in to fill the void. In the average person in our culture, who has been only "normally" deprived of touch, anxiety and an insatiable hunger for posessions replace the missing eros. The child lacking a sense of welcome, joyous belonging, gratuitous security, will learn to hoard the limited supply of affection. According to the law of psychic compensation, not being held leads to holding on, grasping, addiction, posessiveness. Gradually, things replace people as a source of pleasure and security. When the gift of belonging with is denied, the child learns that love means belongin to. To the degree we are arrested at this stage of development, the needy child will dominate our motivations. Other people and things (and there is fundamentally no difference) will be seen as existing solely for the purpose of "my" survival and satisfaction. "Mine" will become the most important word.”
― The Passionate Life: Stages of Loving
― The Passionate Life: Stages of Loving
Ccc’s 2024 Year in Books
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