Joe Stanziola

“Ego love is conditioned by fear of having less and desire for having more. Only unconditional love integrates us. Relationships provide the most powerful tools for the dismantling of the illusions of our controlling and entitled egos! Intimacy and love release us from the ego-bound world. A mutuality makes us whole. Love is reciprocal individuation. To let someone love us and to love someone in return is to enter the world where the ego is divested of its arrogance and its fear of losing itself in the embrace of another.”
― David Richo, When Love Meets Fear: How to Become Defense-Less and Resource-Full: Becoming Defense-less and Resource-full

“For it’s when you stop seeing your sensitivity as a burden and instead recognize it as the gift it is that you will begin to heal the hurt places inside you and bring your full presence into the world.”
― Sheryl Paul, The Wisdom of Anxiety: How Worry and Intrusive Thoughts Are Gifts to Help You Heal

“•​Offering gratitude •​Recording and tending to dreams •​Fresh air and sunshine •​Smiling at a stranger •​Gardening •​Beauty, flowers, color, trees •​Sitting near a body of water, or immersing yourself in one •​Walking and talking with a close friend •​Taking the long way home •​Meandering •​Encountering a wild animal •​Pets •​Reading a poem, and writing one •​Drawing, painting, writing, dancing, singing, chanting •​Being in nature •​Autumn colors, snowfall, spring buds •​Walking in the rain •​Talking to the moon •​Looking at the stars •​Listening to crickets •​Candlelight •​Baths •​Stillness, silence, and solitude •​Doing less and being more •​Being in silence •​Meaningful rituals”
― Sheryl Paul, The Wisdom of Anxiety: How Worry and Intrusive Thoughts Are Gifts to Help You Heal