Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. — David Richo Accepting Copy Share Image
“We hear with our ears; we listen with our intution and our heart.” — David Richo Communication Copy Share Image
We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that… — David Richo Catalyst Copy Share Image
When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will… — David Richo Ability Copy Share Image
Spirituality is the intersection of three paths: letting go of ego, an unconditional yes to the conditions of human existence, and an… — David Richo Compassion Copy Share Image
Synchronicity is a term used by Carl Jung to describe coincidences that are related by meaningfulness rather than by cause and effect. — David Richo Cause and effect Copy Share Image
“We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.” — David Richo Believe Copy Share Image
We were born with four words engraved on our bodies and in our hearts: Love me, hold me. — David Richo Body Copy Share Image
“Once we love ourselves, people no longer look good to us unless they are good for us.” — David Richo Look good Copy Share Image
“For all that has been: Thanks! For all that shall be: Yes! —DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD, Markings” — David Richo Thanks Copy Share Image
Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can… — David Richo Acceptance Copy Share Image
“If you use sarcasm, ridicule, teasing, pinching, tickling, or barbed kidding at times, make a commitment to cease using these passive-aggressive weapons… — David Richo Passive aggressive Copy Share Image
When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of… — David Richo Architect Copy Share Image
The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness… — David Richo Believe Copy Share Image
“Real love does not come off the rack; it is uniquely tailored by the lover to the beloved. Part of the pain… — David Richo Beloved Copy Share Image
There is a natural and inviolable tendency in things to bloom into whatever they truly are in the core of their being.… — David Richo Core Copy Share Image
Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing… — David Richo Adults Copy Share Image
Our higher needs include making full use of our gifts, finding and fulfilling our calling, being loved and cherished just for ourselves,… — David Richo Acceptance Copy Share Image
The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the… — David Richo Believe Copy Share Image
“Self-actualization is not a sudden happening or even the permanent result of long effort. The eleventh-century Tibetan Buddhist poet-saint Milarupa suggested: "Do… — David Richo Buddhism Copy Share Image
“We don’t fear physical closeness because we fear proximity itself. Most of us earnestly want physical contact with those who love us.… — David Richo Closeness Copy Share Image
“What scares us ultimately may not be closeness itself but the feelings it evokes. For someone with a fear of engulfment, closeness… — David Richo Abandonment Copy Share Image
Just as our fingerprints are one-of-a-kind, so is our identity. Each of us is a once-only articulation of what humans can be.… — David Richo Articulation Copy Share Image
In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell… — David Richo Agendas Copy Share Image
True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it. — David Richo Elimination Copy Share Image