Al David Quotes
The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled.
A book can’t be a half-fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant
Tell yourself the stories you need to tell. But don't be fooled by them. Never live your own lies.
Ah, life in medieval times! Yeah, we only have to worry about losing our heads every day.
Why do I feel like this is our destiny. There must be a reason why we have become our characters.
It is impossible for those that tried and kept trying to fail. How can they fail when they have not given up in the task?" N.K.David
The weight of God's love for humanity cannot be determined. But felt with a grateful heart.
Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.
Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.
We too had branched off from the people who had come before us, a family that made the family that made us, and we were shining in the darkness and casting our light all around us.
As if each of us might somehow have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.
But the fact is, as one grows close to death, the only thing that matters is family. I hope you can see that.
Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.
The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.
The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn’t this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people.
It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.
If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.
If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.
Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.
We ardently desire to take down our masks and say to the world, “This is who I am…and I am okay.” This is simple…not easy.
Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.
Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.
The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.
Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.
Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.
Chaos limits the free-flow of love and becomes a roadblock to what family members want most and sadly, it becomes the normal for the family.
When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others’ own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent.
Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.
I no longer want to see others as humans. I want to learn to see others as brothers, sisters, mothers, & fathers.
The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.
We cannot learn something new and stick to it without a modular approach to application, positive reinforcement and a real change of environment.
The mind is a powerful force. It can enslave us or empower us. It can plunge us into the depths of misery or take us to the heights of ecstasy. Learn to use the power wisely.
.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them
Your desire and willingness will call forth witnesses to Awakening, and there is nothing in form that can speed up Awakening – for form but witnesses to the desire within.
The social havoc wreaked by unfettered economic greed comes to be interiorised as the personal weakness and irresponsibility of those principally affected.
The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral.
Keep the change, " he smiled. Was there ever a more empowering phrase than "Keep the change"?
