2013
A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.
104 min
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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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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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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.
We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don’t want to.
Respect the fact that all you do and are now has evolved for a good reason and serves an important purpose.
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When we do not put our primary emotional energy into solving our own problems, we take on other people’s problems as our own.
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How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice. This is equally true for our relationship with our self.
The enormous challenge is to make wise decisions about how and when to say what to whom, and even before that, to know what we really want to say and what we hope to accomplish by saying it.
Our society doesn’t promote self-acceptance and it never will. First of all, self-acceptance doesn’t sell products. Capitalism would fall if we liked ourselves the way we are now. Also, people who feel shamed and inadequate themselves tend to pass it on.