“We can’t manipulate people into swallowing our boundaries by sugarcoating them. Boundaries are a “litmus test” for the quality of our relationships. Those people in our lives who can respect our boundaries will love our wills, our opinions, our separateness. Those who can’t respect our boundaries are telling us that they don’t love our no. They only love our yes, our compliance.”
― Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No
― Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No
“Hearing the message of recovery and hope from someone else fans the dim spark of aliveness we keep buried inside.” BRB p. 359 When”
― Strengthening My Recovery: Meditations for Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families
― Strengthening My Recovery: Meditations for Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families
“While these loved ones may not meet our expectations, it is our expectations, not our loved ones, that have let us down.”
― Courage to Change—One Day at a Time in Al‑Anon II
― Courage to Change—One Day at a Time in Al‑Anon II
“Generally speaking, the more creative a person you are, the more deeply you are affected by this kind of melancholic chemistry. The state of entropy is rather like a vacuum state. Your system is recharging, so the energy within you withdraws into a kind of stasis. The resulting feelings or lack of feeling and/or enthusiasm provide a delicate environment for something quite special to occur, if you are patient enough to allow it. This something is the creative process. In other words, your low energy means that something intangible is gestating inside you even though you cannot yet see it. Only when the state mutates to its expressive stage will you see what the process is about. These low times in your life are therefore very special times, and they generally require aloneness and withdrawal in order for the seeds sprouting inside you to germinate. The worst enemy at such times is interference from your own mind (or indeed someone else’s mind) wondering what is wrong with you.”
― The Gene Keys: Embracing Your Higher Purpose
― The Gene Keys: Embracing Your Higher Purpose
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