Ojaswee FW

“The grandiose self-image that characterises the narcissist compensates for an inadequate and ineffective sense of self. It represents a conscious effort to be different (better), but it fails to change the basic personality or the self.
By identifying with a grandiose image, one can ignore the painfulness of one’s inner reality. But the image also serves an external function in relation to the world. It is a way of gaining acceptance from others, a way of seducing them and of gaining power over them.”
― Alexander Lowen, Narcissism: Denial of the True Self

“This afternoon I couldn't get out of bed, not because I was too tired but because I was too "heavy" - again and again that word, it's the only one that fits me, do you understand this at all? It's something like the “heaviness” of a ship which has lost its rudder and which says to the waves: "I'm too heavy for myself and for you too light".”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“And I close my eyes to gaze into those depths, and am almost engulfed in you.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“to no one did he bare his soul so utterly”
― Philip Boehm, Letters to Milena