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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.
We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.
If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.
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How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.
I learned again and again in my life, until you get your own act together, you’re not ready for Big Love. What you’re ready for is one of those codependent relationships where you desperately need a partner.
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