Posts tagged "triumph"

Domestic Disobedience

You can resolve to live your life with integrity.
Let your credo be this:
Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph.
But not through me.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Lecture (1972)

Read More0

Victory

If you know the enemy and know yourself,
you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
If you know yourself but not the enemy,
for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy or yourself,
you will succumb in every battle.
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Read More0

Supplantation

The sighted person always has a roof overhead, in the form of the blue sky or the clouds, or the stars at night. The same is true for the blind person of the sound of the wind in the trees. It creates trees; one is surrounded by trees whereas before there was nothing.

~John, M. Hull, Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness

Read More0

Prim No. 9

Compelling Enthusiasm

This is even more evident when it comes to supporting the other person to regain their energy and will to live, to transform and believe more in themselves. With a visceral desire for harmony and beauty, she manages to communicate that achieving a state of integration is possible. This stems from her own need, but also from a deep insight that healing (not perfection!) is a possible reality. Finally, she knows how to convey the idea that everyone has value, precisely because it is a need that she has always felt.

Read More0

Prim No. 8

Resource Finder & Decisive Creativity

It is the ability to find solutions creatively, especially when they are needed for issues that concern others and not oneself. Specifically, creativity is expressed in the will to find possibilities through the omnipotent attitude of overcoming obstacles, of seeing alternative paths, of not giving up despite the difficulties.

Read More0