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The benefit of awareness and truthfulness is that you and I see that no one is the king or queen. In fact, each of us is royalty and servant. Each of us has value - each has gifts and the need to give them.
This paradox - that in our weakness begins our strength, in our fear begins our wisdom - is transforming truth.

😵‍💫😵🥴 ummmmm...what did I just read!?!
A knife wound and gorging teeth marks. I am horrified and intrigued as to what is going on with the mad woman. Poor Mason got more then he bargained for!

This book is wrecking my heart. Whew!!

Impaired anger.
Anger's impaired states, depression and pride, express contempt for our passion and vulnerability.
Depression pushes passion back into the heart.
Pride denies the vulnerability revealed in anger.
Both impaired states are attempts to fight the heart's powerful desire for life, which is clearly revealed in anger.

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"We grow as individuals as our money grows. In a way, this simulataneous growth protects us.
As we gradually build both our wealth and our character at the same time, our wealth never gets too big that it crushes us because our character is strong enough to carry it."

"Self-pity is an attempt to manipulate others into taking responsibility for our heart's response and neediness. It’s an attempt to be valued, but with others doing all the work. Because we have been taught to mistake sadness for self-pity, we often dismiss our need to feel sadness as something to be hidden or denied an attempt to block the appearance of self-pity."

Sadness is proportional - the more sadness you feel after a loss, the more you value what is lost. The more you live an open hearted life of fullness, the more you lose. Sadness gives us the gift of valuing and honoring life.

Annette chose forgiveness!!!
Ahhhh, it was so well written, and you could feel it in your soul!

I am positively horrified by Mr. Brocklehurst. He is a.w.e.f.u.l.!!!!!!

When he had little Julia Severns hair cut off because it was curly?? He needs a good taser in the buttocks.

Ha! I loved how Jane gave Mrs. Reed (awful, awful woman) a ear full! Well done, Jane!

"Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words. Fearful, however, of losing this first and only opportunity of relieving my grief by imparting it, I, after a disturbed pause, contrived to frame a meagre, though, as far as it went, true response."

"No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room; it only gave my nerves a shock of which I feel the reverberation to this day. Yes, Mrs. Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did: while rending my heartstrings, you thought you were only uprooting my bad propensities."

Excuse me??!? What just happened!??

The loneliness arouses an emotional and spiritual hunger to be received, known, and loved by another. It is a hunger to be accepted as we are. If we are accepted and enjoyed for who we truly are, then we cannot help but find replenishment. we will likewise be filled emotionally and spiritually. We will be compelled to share our passion for life and do good things through relationships with others.

"It is my responsibility to deal truthfully with hurt. No amount of pretending, denying, or lying will change the truth. Hurt moves the heart towards healing. Vulnerability to hurt initiates a balm for your pain. You step into the hope that God can do for you what you cannot do."

So good!

Ohhhhhh what a fun little plot twist! Well done, Lloyd!

Prince Deran is such a prat. Ugh. His arrogance is too much!