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Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.
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Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.
I am me and I am okay.
People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty
There are five freedoms: The freedom to see and hear what is; The freedom to say what you feel and think; The freedom to feel what you actually feel; The freedom to ask for what you want; The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.
The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.
I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.
