#isa

Nevertheless, this is where it begins. The first word appears only at a moment when nothing can be explained anymore, at some instant of experience that defies all sense. To be reduced to saying nothing. Or else, to say himself: this is what haunts me. And then to realize, almost in the same breath, that this is what he haunts. ↗

— Paul Auster

#realisation #experience

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me… ↗

— Helen Keller

#gratitude #hope #optimism #experience

He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#faith #faith

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#cancel #delighted #disappeared #does #find

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#family #special-needs #family

I just had his hand in a vise,” I protested indignantly. “It wasn’t like I had a dagger in his ribs. ‘Hand in a vise’ is simple assault or, in my case, self-defense. ‘Dagger in the ribs’ is attempted murder. My family did teach me the difference. ↗

— Lisa Shearin

#quote #family

The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#blue-eyed-devil #family #killing #lisa-kleypas #family

Dango, dango, dango, dango. Big dango family. ↗

— Nagisa Furukawa

#family

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#little-women #louisa-may-alcott #nature

The observer self, a part of who we really are, is that part of us that is watching both our false self and our True Self. We might say that it even watches us when we watch. It is our Consciousness, it is the core experience of our Child Within. It thus cannot be watched—at least by anything or any being that we know of on this earth. It transcends our five senses, our co-dependent self and all other lower, though necessary parts, of us. Adult children may confuse their observer self with a kind of defense they may have used to avoid their Real Self and all of its feelings. One might call this defense “false observer self” since its awareness is clouded. It is unfocused as it “spaces” or “numbs out.” It denies and distorts our Child Within, and is often judgmental. ↗

— Charles L. Whitfield

#disassociation #dissociation #healing #ptsd #self-help