Living in the box means being convinced that other people and our circumstances are responsible for our feelings and our helplessness to overcome them. What we can't see when we're in the box is that the way the world appears to us is our projection, and that we are making this projection to justify ourselves in self-betrayal. We cannot see that it's not others' actions but our accusations that result in our feeling offended. C. Terry Warner
Some Similar Quotes
  1. To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
 - Unknown
  2. At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving... - Thomas Hardy
  3. I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another. - Osamu Dazai
  4. Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. - Khaled Hosseini
  5. Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true. - Demosthenes
More Quotes By C. Terry Warner
  1. Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?
  2. Personal growth is not like the development of a skill. It does not take place in observable increments that can be measured and charted. Indeed, as we have seen, when we're growing in sensitivity, generosity, and compassion, we're not aware of it, because we're not...
  3. Honest self-understanding liberates us from our stuck emotions.
  4. Self-betrayal occurs when we do to another what we sense we should not do or don't do what we sense we should. Thus self-betrayal is a sort of moral self-compromise, a violation of our own personal sense of how we ought to be and what...
  5. Blame is the lie by which we convince ourselves that we are victims. It is the lie that robs us of our serenity, our generosity, our confidence, an our delight in life . For it is the act of blaming that can't co-exist with self-responsibility...
Related Topics