檳榔嶼

- The tales we tell ourselves are the central themes n our psyches.
- Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, it's easy to repeat our ability to live and love ourselves with an open heart.
- We're more inclined to regard past losses with self-blame than with compassion.
- Instead, we might ask ourselves: If I look at what's happening through the eyes of love, how would I tell this story?
- Our senses are often the gateway to our stories, triggering memories from long ago.
- The unconscious mind is a vst repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind, which has to work hard to connect the dots. Moreover, the unconscious mind operates with some very powerful biases, and tends to underscore our pain.
- Mark Wolynn, <<It Didn't Start with You>> : "Just as we inherit our eye color and blood type, we may also inherit the residue of traumatic events that have taken place in our family"
- "You can do anything you want to do. It's your thinking that you can't do it that's stopping you."
- To truly love ourselves, we must treat our stories with respect, but now allow them to have a strangehold on us, so that we free our mutable present and beckoning future from the past.