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Diane Viola
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Travels with Buster: A Journey of Unconditional Love
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“Sometimes how we learn to love ourselves is by loving others and seeking to answer the question "How may I serve?" rather than "What's in it for me?" So, don't wait 'til you've learnt how to do that before entering into your next relationship, because it is in the context of relationship that we learn how to love and how to let love in, not sitting on the sidelines trying to work it out.”
― Travels with Buster: A Journey of Unconditional Love
― Travels with Buster: A Journey of Unconditional Love
“So often in our busy lives we either take for granted or fail to notice that it's the smallest things that mean the most to us and that the smaller we are, the bigger those little things appear!”
― Travels with Buster: A Journey of Unconditional Love
― Travels with Buster: A Journey of Unconditional Love
“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.”
― Focusing
― Focusing
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
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“To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.”
― Healing the Shame that Binds You
― Healing the Shame that Binds You
“Family secrets can go back for generations. They can be about suicides, homicides, incest, abortions, addictions, public loss of face, financial disaster, etc. All the secrets get acted out. This is the power of toxic shame. The pain and suffering of shame generate automatic and unconscious defenses. Freud called these defenses by various names: denial, idealization of parents, repression of emotions and dissociation from emotions. What is important to note is that we can’t know what we don’t know. Denial, idealization, repression and dissociation are unconscious survival mechanisms. Because they are unconscious, we lose touch with the shame, hurt and pain they cover up. We cannot heal what we cannot feel. So without recovery, our toxic shame gets carried for generations.”
― Healing the Shame that Binds You
― Healing the Shame that Binds You
