The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in. — David Richo Challenge Copy Share Image
We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives. — David Richo Earth Copy Share Image
“We hear with our ears; we listen with our intution and our heart.” — David Richo Communication Copy Share Image
The human heart holds much more love than it can ever disburse in one lifetime. — David Richo Heart Copy Share Image
“Thus, we strive for intimacy with the whole universe, not just with one person.” — David Richo Intimacy Copy Share Image
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. — David Richo Openings Copy Share Image
True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it. — David Richo Copy Share Image
“For all that has been: Thanks! For all that shall be: Yes! —DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD, Markings” — David Richo Copy Share Image
It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace. — David Richo Effort Copy Share Image
Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own. — David Richo Bread 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 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 Copy Share Image
“spirituality. In healthy intimate relationships we do not seek more than 25 percent of our nurturance from a partner; we learn to… — David Richo Health Copy Share Image
Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not… — David Richo Adulthood Copy Share Image
Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our… — David Richo 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
A healthy person is not perfect but perfectible, not a done deal but a work in progress. Staying healthy takes discipline, work,… — David Richo Copy Share Image
The Five A’s (attention, appreciation, acceptance, affection, allowing) are simultaneously the fulfillment of our earliest needs, the requirements of adult intimacy and… — David Richo Acceptance Copy Share Image
In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some harm us,… — David Richo Copy Share Image
“The best response comes from action, not from intellect. For example, we may hear this question: “If love rules the world, why… — David Richo Acceptance 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
Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our… — David Richo Ancient 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
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 Copy Share Image
Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt or harmed by… — David Richo 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
Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood… — David Richo Acceptance Copy Share Image
“success in managing fear prevents us from ever facing it fully. Surrender to it ventilates our souls so that fear becomes an… — David Richo Fear 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
“Patriotism comes from the same Latin word as father. Blind patriotism is collective transference. In it the state becomes a parent and… — David Richo Blind obedience Copy Share Image
“there is nothing to take over if you are not putting up any resistance.” — David Richo Copy Share Image
“The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.” — David Richo Copy Share Image
A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to… — David Richo Copy Share Image
To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully. — David Richo Adults Copy Share Image
