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Life breaks everybody, long before death comes to sweep up the fragments.
“The number one thing I would tell you is this. You can’t fix people.
You can’t change people. So the trick, if there is one, is to differentiate. Your emotion. Their emotion. Your responsibility. Their responsibility. Oh, you can offer your friendship, your support, even your help. But what somebody does with that is entirely up to them.”
If you were completely self-centered, you wouldn’t be worrying about being self-centered.”
If you didn’t care deeply about the feelings of others, you wouldn’t be faced with a selfish need to make them better.
You’re self-centered, as you say, because you feel things so deeply.”
Consider adopting the term self-care.”
I see that all of us are equal, that my weird self has just as much right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as anybody else
Everybody is important; everybody is responsible for their own path, their own happiness. But we are still responsible to each
other. To each other, mind. Not for each other.”
I’ve made peace with the problem by focusing on what I am meant to do on this planet, rather than on happiness.
You see more than most do, or maybe feel more would be the right word. It gives you extra perception, and that makes it harder to keep boundaries.”
But whether you believe or not, I think prayer is an act of love, a conscious desire for good. It also helps to create a separate space for what you feel regarding the well-being of others.”
May you be free from inner and outer harm and danger. May you be free of mental suffering or distress. May you be happy.
May you be happy. May you be free of physical pain and suffering. May you be healthy and strong.
Who am I? Why am I here? What do I want?
May I be safe and protected. May I be happy. May I be able to live in this world happily, peacefully, joyfully, with ease.
I also want to do something, to make a change, to keep myself from slipping back into the old patterns.
