Having grown up in a country that has spent the last six centuries battling life and then itself, I was raised to believe that you fight to get to where you want to be in life. And there was pride and virtue attached to it.
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We learn that the harder we pursue the higher our chances of attaining what we’re looking for. But often we find that the more we get the more we want.
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 layers of victimhood go deep and wide. The victim morphs and moulds itself to take on different identities and roles in order to mislead and misrepresent itself.
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What is the definition of real when a scientist says that something can seem kind of woo-woo, but there’s something real going on there?
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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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