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“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Circe
― Circe
“The term cult is not itself pejorative but simply descriptive,” the American psychologist Margaret Thaler Singer, who spent her career studying cults, has written. “A cultic relationship is one in which a person intentionally induces others to become totally or nearly totally dependent on him or her for almost all major life decisions, and inculcates in these followers a belief that he or she had some special talent, gift, or knowledge.”
― The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
― The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
“We all impose some coherence—some meaning—on the chaotic events of our existence. We rummage through the raw images of our memories, selecting, burnishing, erasing. We emerge as the heroes of our stories, allowing us to live with what we have done—or haven’t done.”
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
“How does a master manipulator create and sustain faith? Why do his converts persist in believing things that are patently false?—also”
― The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
― The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
“…each woman is a wonderful world unto herself. And monogamy? It’s like choosing to live in a single town and never traveling to experience the beauty, history, and enchantment of all the other unique, wonderful places in the world. Why does love have to limit us?
Perhaps it doesn’t. Only fear is restrictive. Love is expansive. And I wonder, since fear of enmeshment impels us to avoid commitment and fear of abandonment makes us possessive, what type of evolved relationship can emerge once those wounds are healed?”
― The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
Perhaps it doesn’t. Only fear is restrictive. Love is expansive. And I wonder, since fear of enmeshment impels us to avoid commitment and fear of abandonment makes us possessive, what type of evolved relationship can emerge once those wounds are healed?”
― The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
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