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People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.
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Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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We are what we believe we are!
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Finally I saw that everything had come to nothing. and gave it up. and took my old body and went out into the morning and sang.
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We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.
Every genuinely new technology has a genuinely new way of breaking—and every now and then, those malfunctions open a new door to the adjacent possible. Sometimes the way a new technology breaks is almost as interesting as the way it works.
If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.
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