Stephanie Dowrick

I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of…

— Stephanie Dowrick

“[...] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs.…

— Stephanie Dowrick

Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.

— Stephanie Dowrick

“[...] as I have seen with other people whose sense of their work is vocational rather than pragmatic, my desire to write,…

— Stephanie Dowrick

LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of…

— Stephanie Dowrick

Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the…

— Stephanie Dowrick

“You are a self and an other. Your 'others' are in part your own creation. This in turn affects and shapes your…

— Stephanie Dowrick

Happiness--like love--is itself an attitude.

— Stephanie Dowrick

Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up.

— Stephanie Dowrick

It should not be difficult to accept the idea that someone else is, in 'your experience of them', in part your self-creation.…

— Stephanie Dowrick

“Art is childhood, after all,” wrote Rilke”

— Stephanie Dowrick

It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.

— Stephanie Dowrick

Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally.

— Stephanie Dowrick

What helps most is remembering that such a cry or attack or sly blow is a reflection of that other person’s inner…

— Stephanie Dowrick

Happiness can come in a single moment. And in a single moment it can go again. But a single moment does not…

— Stephanie Dowrick

How we feel about our own self, how well or little we know our own self, whether we feel alive inside, largely…

— Stephanie Dowrick

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only…

— Stephanie Dowrick

Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.

— Stephanie Dowrick

“Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest…

— Stephanie Dowrick