“ The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
-Carl Jung
“The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited.”
-Sue Monk Kidd
“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.”
-Carl Rogers
“Painful feelings are, by their very nature, temporary. They will weaken over time as long as we don’t prolong or amplify them through resistance or avoidance. The only way to eventually free ourselves from debilitating pain, therefore, is to be with it as it is. The only way out is through.”
-Kristin Neff
“We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves.”
-Daniel J. Siegel
“To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.”
-Viktor Frankl
“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.”
-Viktor Frankl
“Goodness is the foundation of all creation and the essential core of humanity. This affirmation of the primary goodness of the human person is a foundation for all good therapy. No matter how muddied and dim that spark of goodness may seem to the outside observer, however buried under layers of suffering, fear, and negative, even evil behavior, this primordial goodness is the original inheritance of all created beings from the beginning of time.”