John Bradshaw Quotes

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• It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
• Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
• Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.
• Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about…
• We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
• The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.
• Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.
• Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.
• Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious thoughts. This is…
• To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.
• I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.
• Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child…
• You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
• All these feelings need to be felt. We need to stomp and storm; to sob and cry; to perspire and tremble.
• Guilt says I've done something wrong; ... shame says there is something wrong with me. Guilt says I've made a mistake; ... shame says I…
• It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We…
• Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.
• The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring.
• You can't heal what you can't feel.
• Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to…

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