Quotes About Vulnerability

Truth is, if the drought don't get you and the blizzards don't get you, that's when some devil with liquor in his soul and a gun in his claw will ride you down and clean you out.

And each morning the sun came up weaker and whiter, like an old man rising from his bed, and each morning's chill was slower giving up the ground.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing.

If people bring so much courage to this world that world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

In surrender, you no longer need ego defenses and false masks. You become very simple, very real. "That's dangerous," says the ego. "You'll get hurt. You'll become vulnerable." What the ego doesn't know, of course, is that only through the letting go of resistance, through becoming "vulnerable," can you discover your true and essential invulnerability.

A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within (...)

If you cannot be at ease with yourself when you are alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.

The ego's needs are endless. It feels vulnerable and threatened and so lives in a state of fear and want. Once you know how the basic dysfunction operates, there is no need to explore all its countless manifestations, no need to make it into a complex personal problem.

the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat.

Este ser falso, elaborado por la mente, el ego, se siente vulnerable, inseguro y siempre está buscando cosas nuevas con las cuales identificarse para que le den una sensación de que existe.

Es cierto que sólo una persona inconsciente intentará usar o manipular a las demás, pero es igualmente cierto que sólo una persona inconsciente puede ser usada y manipulada.

Lo que el ego no sabe, por supuesto, es que sólo abandonando la resistencia, haciéndote «vulnerable», puedes descubrir tu verdadera y esencial invulnerabilidad.

APRENDE A EXPRESAR lo que sientes sin culpar. Aprende a escuchar a tu pareja de manera abierta, sin ponerte a la defensiva.

It is true that only an unconscious person will try to use or manipulate others, but it is equally true that only an unconscious person can be used and manipulated.

Por su naturaleza fantasmal, y a pesar de los elaborados mecanismos de defensa, el ego es muy vulnerable e inseguro, y se ve a sí mismo constantemente amenazado. Ese, a propósito, es el caso incluso si el ego exteriormente aparece muy seguro de sí mismo.

Moreover, as long as you are identified with your mind, the ego runs your life, as I pointed out earlier. Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat.

But beware: some people who are unresponsive, withdrawn, insensitive, or cut off from their feelings may try to convince others that there is nothing wrong with them and everything wrong with their partner. Men tend to do that more than women.

Las necesidades del ego son infinitas. Se siente vulnerable y amenazado y por lo tanto vive en un estado de miedo y de carencia.

We spend too much time concealing our neediness. We need to stop hiding. Being needy is our basic condition. There is no shame in it—it's just the way it is. Understanding this, accepting it, and practicing it will make you a better helper.

Your neediness qualifies you to help others. Your neediness, offered well to someone else, can even be one of the great gifts you give to your church. You will inspire others to ask for help.

For Peter, it was as if he was the first Adam. He felt the gaze of the holy and couldn't have felt more naked.

Kho closed and sought my jugular with his teeth. He seemed to forget the hatchet dangling by