Depression and pure love

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise (Dostoevsky)

On a mother’s love

No child is ever free from his mother except to the extent that she wills and sets the child so.

Christmas Carol paradoxes 5 – It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

Wishing we have “ears to hear” above the din of judgmental self-talk

Dark Night of the Soul (8) – Richard Rohr

In crisis, shoulds and oughts don’t help. Love wins out over guilt any day.