You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.
I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.
My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.
Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.