You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated.
Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It's like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really 'arrive,' but we certainly know that we're heading in the right direction.
When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.
Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen.
Effort + the courage to show up = enough.
If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.
Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.
Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.
Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.