“The grandiose person is never really free, because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others and because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail. #8 Grandiosity and depression are often seen together in patients. Grandiosity is the false self, and depression is the void that is created when the false self breaks down. The former child no longer exists, and the former parents are now old and dependent. #9 Grandiosity and depression are similar in that they are both a result of the loss of a potential true self. They are also similar in that they are both a result of the denial of the emotional world of a person’s childhood.”
― Summary of Alice Miller's The drama of The Gifted Child
― Summary of Alice Miller's The drama of The Gifted Child
“There were walkers everywhere. Some, of course, may have been walking to their cars, having been forced to park some distance away from where they really wanted to be. Some may have walked unwillingly because they were simply too poor to own a car, because they had lousy jobs or were freshly immigrated, or both. Some of the walkers were homeless, pushing shopping carts full of recyclables. A few were simply mad. I joined them. I became an L.A. walker.”
― The Lost Art of Walking
― The Lost Art of Walking
“Rob Eiter sells a video on the high crotch”
― Super C: The Ultimate Grappling Move
― Super C: The Ultimate Grappling Move
“Every child has a need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother. In the first weeks and months of life, he needs to have the mother at his disposal.”
― Summary of Alice Miller's The drama of The Gifted Child
― Summary of Alice Miller's The drama of The Gifted Child
“as true as I can make it. A long way up ahead I saw an old black man walking toward me. He was lean, loose, in work clothes. His walk was solid and serviceable, but so very weary-looking. We were approaching each other for a good long time and we made eye contact long before we got within hailing distance. When we finally came face-to-face the old guy said, “I wish I was where you just comin’ from.” I’ve spent a lot of time over the years trying to think of some witty thing I should have said in reply.”
― The Lost Art of Walking
― The Lost Art of Walking
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