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“It is easier, far easier, to obey another than to command oneself.”
― When Nietzsche Wept
― When Nietzsche Wept
“To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you’ll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It’s to produce a creator.”
― When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
― When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
“Whether we realize it or not, it is our woundedness, or how we cope with it, that dictates much of our behavior, shapes our social habits, and informs our ways of thinking about the world.”
― The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
― The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
“He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred may neither understand you nor know your true worth.”
― The Wisdom of Gibran: Aphorisms and Maxims
― The Wisdom of Gibran: Aphorisms and Maxims
“One cannot get much more vulnerable than to expose oneself psychologically. To share oneself with another and then be misunderstood or rejected is, for many, a risk not worth taking. As a result, this is the rarest of intimacies and the reason so many of us are reluctant to share even with loved ones our deepest concerns and insecurities about ourselves. Yet there is no closeness that can surpass the sense of feeling known and still being liked, accepted, welcomed, invited to exist.”
― Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
― Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
Casey’s 2025 Year in Books
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