Liv

“Not why the addiction but why the pain.”
― Gabor Maté

“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Deep listening simply means listening with compassion. Even if the other person is full of wrong perceptions, discrimination, blaming, judging, and criticizing, you are still capable of sitting quietly and listening, without interrupting, without reacting. Because you know that if you can listen like that, the other person will feel enormous relief. You remember that you are listening with only one purpose in mind: to give the other person a chance to express themselves,”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Work: How to Find Joy and Meaning in Each Hour of the Day