Robert

“The highest virtue is inaction But nothing is left undone.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue

“The challenge is to do both—to love someone intensely and with abandon while simultaneously fostering their growth, even if it’s away from you, and accepting their parts. Not many people can do that.”
― Richard C. Schwartz, You Are the One You've Been Waiting For: Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships

“So things are sometimes augmented By being diminished, And diminished by addition.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue

“Emerson said, “The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.” The same is true for high love—to do without your partner’s physical presence, if necessary, because you support their life’s journey, even when it departs from yours.”
― Richard C. Schwartz, You Are the One You've Been Waiting For: Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships