closed mouths dont get fed but it’s beautiful when you don’t have to scream for what you want & deserve it’s just naturally given with ease & care & intention
The best way to honor your parents is to follow your true passion. To fully be yourself. To take the path you’re called to rather than the path they desire for you.
You’ll disappoint them at first.
But you’ll be happy.
They’ll come around, naturally.
Uncomfortable truth: being in therapy doesn’t actually help people who don’t self reflect and who aren’t trying to see their role in the situation. No therapist can make a person see what they’re not willing to see.
Mature love isn’t about being swept away. It’s about conscious choices.
It’s about planning, teamwork, & vision.
It’s about partnership, not blind emotion.
Mature love will require you to lead & be led.
To give & receive.
It’s grounded in awareness.
Reading Jung again and this concept sticks out to me: “The most terrifying thing in the world is to accept oneself completely.” What you want to change about yourself is always found in what you fear, because self-transformation has to start with self-acceptance. Example: