Curt Matzenbacher

“The shadow is the place we put all the suppressed and repressed parts of our lives.
+ Eventually, in every life, the suppressed and repressed parts of our selves will revolt.
+ The challenge is to acknowledge and honor the shadow but not be tyrannized by it.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“Our starting place was always original goodness,10 not original sin. This”
― Richard Rohr, The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

“Here’s the painful pattern that emerged from my research with men: We ask them to be vulnerable, we beg them to let us in, and we plead with them to tell us when they’re afraid, but the truth is that most women can’t stomach it. In those moments when real vulnerability happens in men, most of us recoil with fear and that fear manifests as everything from disappointment to disgust. And men are very smart. They know the risks, and they see the look in our eyes when we’re thinking, C’mon! Pull it together. Man up. As Joe Reynolds, one of my mentors and the dean at our church, once told me during a conversation about men, shame, and vulnerability, “Men know what women really want. They want us to pretend to be vulnerable. We get really good at pretending.” Covert”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“Be kind to people, be ruthless to systems.”
― Michael Brooks