reflections on worth – Page 12

Afraid to be sad?

You’re so, sooo much bigger than your sadness. There’s plenty of room in the hugeness of who you are. Sadness won’t crowd out the rest.

Don’t be too quick to embrace the fundamentalism that summarily ascribes all of your good fortune to God/God’s will.

The winner is the one who gives all of themselves away to others first.

Acting piously without being pious is the darkest hypocrisy, underlying our resentment of others, and our own self-loathing.

…I can picture you getting on the floor, eye level with them as toddlers…

I wondered if the fixed smile–as I perceived it–wasn’t also a wince from hurt carried constantly conscious. Inescapable.