self-awareness

I had battled my own demons that day, facing down the thing that imprisoned me since the accident-a scar and the diffidence it created inside of me. But it was just a physical blemish, not something that made me who I am. It took a mentally disturbed murderer who gave me a sneak peak at death to show me that.

Through my pain and sorrow, God has prepared me to share His word with others in a way that was made just for me.

Self Hate: The deadliest 'dis-ease' experienced by wounded souls.

Make room for who you are by knowing who you__e not.

I have only been a __oor Me_ once or twice in my life_. And that was my own fault.

Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk__ssential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall.

You know, that's what you've been doing in a way--coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell.

Without courageous action, Hope is a Universal liar.

Some of us are filled with a unique inner light. Others around us cease to exist because of it. The light opaques them. The outcome is, they will try everything in their power to tear it off, from you. Unless you accept their terms; to give up that uniqueness, forever.__ow, my question for you is: Are you a people pleaser or are you one of us?

I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional ideal is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

How can you get through to yourself?

Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody__ is. Embrace that you have things you can__ control. We all have a list of them.

It__ probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. (413)

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life.

The myth of Oedipus . . . arouses powerful intellectual and emotional reactions in the adult-so much so, that it may provide a cathartic experience, as Aristotle taught all tragedy does. [A reader] may wonder why he is so deeply moved; and in responding to what he observes as his emotional reaction, ruminating about the mythical events and what these mean to him, a person may come to clarify his thoughts and feelings. With this, certain inner tensions which are the consequence of events long past may be relieved; previously unconscious material can then enter one's awareness and become accessible for conscious working through. This can happen if the observer is deeply moved emotionally by the myth, and at the sametime strongly motivated intellectually to understand it.

...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits