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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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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.
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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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?
The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.
We are what we believe we are!
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.