We often isolate ourselves when we’re hurt. We close ourselves around our suffering, shut the door to the world, and to largely to ourselves, and hide. We don’t allow ourselves to be vulnerable around our issues, because we’re ashamed of whatever we’re going through.
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Our presumption that people are innocent until proven otherwise rests on the belief that people are inherently good rather than bad. We have chosen to trust that life is good rather than evil, that people are kind rather than vicious, generous rather than stingy. But when it comes to trust, we say that trust is
To make ourselves the centre of our world is one of the most humble things we could do.
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To see within is the most beautiful gift we can give ourselves. To not just look, but to truly see. To be with ourselves and honour our reality and who we are in this very moment.
The fear of how we’re perceived by others is a form of victim mentality, on three distinct levels.
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When reason says that we should take control of our emotions, it’s not reason speaking, it’s fear masquerading as reason. Reason doesn’t want to get rid of emotions, emotion wants to get rid of emotions.
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When we tell ourselves that someone else’s needs come first, we’re pretending to be generous and selfless, when in fact we’re being anything but. Deciding that it’s up to us to say whose needs come first is to put our own needs first, and to pretend we aren’t. When we leave the common choice with
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Underneath the questions we ask of ourselves about ourselves is a request for permission. A permission to be who we are, with all we are and all we aren’t; with all we’ve ever been and haven’t; with all we’ll ever be. A permission to feel shame without shaming. To feel blame without blaming ourselves for
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The more we pursue success, the more reminded we are of our failure. The more we try to fix ourselves, the more broken we feel.
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If a tree falls in the forest when nobody is listening, does it make a sound?
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