We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection. Love is not something we give or get; it...
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Unknown
Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she’s being abused–pain, outrage, hate,...
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Unknown
Soul, if you want to learn secrets, 
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover, 
yet you worry what people are saying.
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Jalaluddin Rumi
I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that
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Paula Hawkins
The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.
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J.k. Rowling
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I hope it's the good kind of dilemma, " Reginald broke Patricia's reverie. "Whatever one you're on the horns of.".." I was just thinking, " she said. "There are so many scary problems in the world. Like, I was just reading that we could be...
When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.
As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.
Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?
A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.
