“No friend can love you like your shadow.”
― Song of a Nature Lover
― Song of a Nature Lover
“To really free ourselves and live our Shadow Lives, we have to be able to not just remove the mask we’ve been wearing but to look at the monster that hides beneath it and learn to love it.”
― Shadow Life: Freedom from an Unreal World - Reclaim Your Hidden Self, Practise Unconditional Self-Acceptance, and Live Real
― Shadow Life: Freedom from an Unreal World - Reclaim Your Hidden Self, Practise Unconditional Self-Acceptance, and Live Real
“The pain of being aware of your own darkness is one of the most excruciating sensations one can experience in a lifetime. It feels like dying. Until it sets you free.”
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“Shame is a very powerful tool for a manipulator. Few emotional states are more painful than shame. We feel guilty for what we do, but we feel shame for what we are. Shame is a feeling of deep humiliation, and some manipulators enjoy making their victim feel humiliated. It places them in a superior position.”
― 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control In Personal Relationships
― 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control In Personal Relationships
“A manipulator belittles a victim by using behavior or language that diminishes or mocks his or her opinions, ideas, feelings, looks, or achievements. Belittling can be accomplished non-verbally through the use of eye-rolls, scoffs, or smug smiles; and verbally by using sarcastic, condescending, or mocking tones. An abuser will sometimes disguise belittling as supposed harmless joking.”
― 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control In Personal Relationships
― 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control In Personal Relationships
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