It’s just that kind of planet,
as Jim Rohn would say.
Posts tagged "acceptance" — Page 2
Reframe
When we deeply grasp what has happened to us, it becomes clear that we’re doing great. One of the essential shifts in perspective that I’m hoping you’ll take from The Joyous Recovery is to drop the notion, “I need to change what’s wrong with me,” and replace it with, “It’s incredible that I’ve done as well as I have. Now it’s time to do even better.”
Think of healing not as a process of changing, but the opposite: of becoming more truly the person you’ve always been. It’s about going back along the road picking up all the pieces of yourself that were taken from you along the way. We’re not trying to fix what’s wrong with you; we’re trying to set what’s right with you free.
—The Joyous Recovery, Lundy Bancroft
The Solution
Now you must learn that only infinite
patience produces immediate effects …
Infinite patience calls upon infinite love,
and by producing results now
it renders time unnecessary.
―A Course in Miracles
Blue Highlight
For all practical purposes we take it for granted that in general the patient could not develop otherwise than she did; that in particular she could not help doing, feeling, thinking what she did do, feel, think. This viewpoint, however, is not shared by the patient. Her lofty disregard for all that means laws and necessities extends to herself too. The fact that, everything considered, her development could go only in certain directions is beneath her consideration. Whether some drive or attitude was conscious or unconscious does not matter. However insuperable the odds against which she had to struggle she should have met them with unfailing strength, courage, and equanimity. If she did not do so, it proves that she is no good.
―Neurosis and Human Growth, Karen Horney