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Lying is about controlling someone else’s reality, hoping that what they don’t know won’t hurt you.
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“Hearing the message of recovery and hope from someone else fans the dim spark of aliveness we keep buried inside.” BRB p. 359 When”
― Strengthening My Recovery: Meditations for Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families
― Strengthening My Recovery: Meditations for Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families
“Sex is an emotion in motion.”
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“We can’t manipulate people into swallowing our boundaries by sugarcoating them. Boundaries are a “litmus test” for the quality of our relationships. Those people in our lives who can respect our boundaries will love our wills, our opinions, our separateness. Those who can’t respect our boundaries are telling us that they don’t love our no. They only love our yes, our compliance.”
― Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No
― Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No
“While these loved ones may not meet our expectations, it is our expectations, not our loved ones, that have let us down.”
― Courage to Change—One Day at a Time in Al‑Anon II
― Courage to Change—One Day at a Time in Al‑Anon II
“When the boy in our story then inadvertently dislodges one hair that falls into the spring, and it turns to gold, we could say he learns these things: that sexual energy is good; that the hunting instinct, which mammals possess without shame, is good; that animal heat, fierceness, and passionate spontaneity is good; and that excess, extravagance, and going with Pan out beyond the castle boundaries is good too.”
― Iron John: A Book about Men
― Iron John: A Book about Men
Noah’s 2025 Year in Books
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