“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”
― ram dass
“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.” ― ram dass
“We are so used to disguising ourselves from others that we often end up by disguising ourselves from ourselves.”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
In cultivating compassion we draw from the wholeness of our experience—our suffering, our empathy, as well as our cruelty and terror. It has to be this way. Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. C
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Every day we’re hiding who we are, convinced that we’re not whole apart from what we do and our relationships.
Chris McAlister • Figure That Shift Out
As we become less identified with any single aspect of the separate self against another, we’re freer to know which among them all is most appropriate for a given situation. It’s as if we can be anyone to anyone. Resting behind all roles, we can also be, as it were, no one to no one—that is, we can create a space where whoever we’re with has the be
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