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The challenge is to find neither optimism nor pessimism, but simply live the experience as consciously as possible

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If we don't give ourselves measured, just appreciation, we run the risk of spending much of our life desperately seeking disproportionate appreciation from others.

We are often ill at ease when it comes to simply giving and receiving

our well-being will derive not so much from the solution to a problem as from the quality of the connection made possible by seeking that solution.

Paralyzed to a greater or lesser extent by fear, I pretty much stopped evolving and, consequently, I stopped being.

There is no opposition; there are just two parallel needs.

"I don't manage to stay with myself when I'm with another person, and therefore I split."

Thus, our most intimate and most essential well-being is born of the quality of the relationship we maintain with ourselves, with others, and with the environment in which we live.

We aren't aware of our needs... since we weren't taught to recognise them

Developing our vocabulary expands our ability to deal with what we are experiencing.

Feelings operate like a flashing light on a dash-board, indicating that something is or is not operating properly, that a need is or is not being met.