When the crushing of hopes is
pervasive a feeling of doom results.
―Neurosis and Human Growth, Karen Horney
Posts tagged "abuse" — Page 2
Barrage
She especially has no appreciation for all that is “ merely ” striving and not accomplishment. She rather discards, for instance, the honest striving to get to the roots of her trouble, which she has shown in making one serious attempt after another to take up analysis or to analyze herself.
―Neurosis and Human Growth, Karen Horney
Dynamic Tension Solution
I’m at that point in my ___________ where I’d love nothing more than to f move on, but I can’t
The reminder is always there
It’s there at bed time, it’s ready when i wake up, when i change my clothes, use the toilet or shower, it’s just always there, waiting to remind me ―Ritchie from X
Every obstacle that peace must flow across is surmounted in just the same way; the fear that raised it yields to the love beyond, and so the fear is gone. And so it is with this. The desire to get rid of peace and drive the Holy Spirit from you fades in the presence of the quiet recognition that you love Him. The exaltation of the body is given up in favor of the spirit, which you love as you could never love the body. And the appeal of death is lost forever as love’s attraction stirs and calls to you. From beyond each of the obstacles to love, Love Itself has called.
―A Course in Miracles
Reclamation
This means that we can relinquish our claims only to the extent to which we overcome the whole search for glory and all that it entails.
However, unlike a tapeworm cure, in the process of coming back to ourselves every step counts.
―Neurosis and Human Growth, Karen Horney