Robert

“We each have a source of love within us called the Self. From this place, we can retrieve our exiles from our inner basements and heal their wounds sufficiently”
― Richard C. Schwartz, You Are the One You've Been Waiting For: Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships

“The irony is that a Self-to-Self relationship based on courageous love is so fulfilling that if you were to taste it, you wouldn’t be inclined to leave it.”
― Richard C. Schwartz, You Are the One You've Been Waiting For: Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships

“Emerson said, “The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.” The same is true for high love—to do without your partner’s physical presence, if necessary, because you support their life’s journey, even when it departs from yours.”
― Richard C. Schwartz, You Are the One You've Been Waiting For: Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships

“So things are sometimes augmented By being diminished, And diminished by addition.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue