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John Wallis
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Most children learn there are acceptable feelings which are tolerated or produce the results they want, and unacceptable feelings which get them nowhere or get results they don’t want. They learn to channel all their feelings through
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“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
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“Happiness is the consciousness of growth. [...] If my definition has validity, it suggests that most people come to therapy because they sense their growth has been arrested. Certainly many patients look to therapy to reinstitute the growth process. (33)”
― Bioenergetics: The Revolutionary Therapy That Uses the Language of the Body to Heal the Problems of the Mind
― Bioenergetics: The Revolutionary Therapy That Uses the Language of the Body to Heal the Problems of the Mind
“We do not realize that, as a rule, male violence is merely a symptom of psychic violence perpetrated in the dark, as it were, by terrible mothers who go unpunished.”
― Dragon Mother: A New Look at the Female Psyche
― Dragon Mother: A New Look at the Female Psyche
“Throughout the world there is an awakening to the fact that, just as a human being cannot hope to realize his or her potential without healthy self-esteem, neither can a society whose members do not respect themselves, do not value their persons, do not trust their minds. But with all of these developments, what precisely self-esteem is—and what specifically its attainment depends on—remain the great questions.”
― The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
― The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
“...the rage that is aroused because their autonomy has been destroyed becomes a destructive drive in its own right and stimulates their desire for power. If nothing happens to relieve their situation – if they are not treated humanely, for example – children soon learn that pain itself is an effective means of gaining power over others. They understand that pain can alter their own mood, and they begin to assume that everyone and everything can be controlled by inflicting it – Arno Gruen”
― Dragon Mother: A New Look at the Female Psyche
― Dragon Mother: A New Look at the Female Psyche
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