Barbara
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“As we expand our level of conscious awareness, we can see that we are not our ego stories. Thoughts happen to us. They don’t mean anything about who we are. They’re simply our ego attempting to defend our identity and protect us from pain.”
― How To Do The Work
― How To Do The Work
“It's incredible to me that you're still getting mileage out of your mother's suicide. You're still using it as currency, even though it has nothing to do with what you did. In fact, It's kind of psychotic that you're spending that currency on this moment. When will it run out?”
― Big Swiss
― Big Swiss
“The familiar feels safe; that is, until we teach ourselves that discomfort is temporary and a necessary part of transformation.”
― How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
― How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
“Yes, people age horribly. They suffer strokes. Their bodies and brains fall apart. But the male ego? Firmly intact until the bitter end.”
― Big Swiss
― Big Swiss
“All I’m saying is that trauma doesn’t get you a lifelong get-out-of-jail-free card. It also doesn’t necessarily confer wisdom, or the right to pontificate,”
― Big Swiss
― Big Swiss
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