Showing posts with label Obsession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obsession. Show all posts

Friday, May 29, 2020

Flexibility

Flexibility

Stop being obsessed with perfection and orderliness and leave room for flexibility in your life. 
Be spontaneous again.
Play more at the game of life.
(Susan Smith Jones, Ph.D. in The Color of Light by Perry Tilleraas, 24 November)

Dick Henthorn
29 May 2020)

Monday, November 4, 2019

Stuff

Stuff

Our obsession with stuff carries a hefty price tag.
(Max Lucado, Grace For The Moment, Vol. II, 15 Sep)

Dick Henthorn
4 Nov 2019

Monday, October 28, 2019

Obsessive State

Obsessive State

The fact that in the obsessive state we overlook "realistic" aspects of the object of desire and focus on sheer delight suggests that the loving eye sees something to which the cold eye of reality is blind.
(Thomas Moore - Soul Mates, p. 220)

Dick Henthorn
28 Oct 2019

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Obsession


Taking away an obsession doesn't mean we're cured.
(Amy E. Dean, Night Light, 13 January)
21 February 2015

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Perfect Harmony


Blackwater Falls, WV

Those who strive to be perfect, though, are not so quick to believe everything that is said, because they understand human weakness, which is prone to evil and is slippery enough in words. (Thomas 'A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, Chapter 4)

Strain, struggle, frustration, tension, anxiety, compulsion, obsession and fear are the results you get when you are pushing too hard. (Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today! 11 March)

... insight alone is not sufficient to ... [solve a problem,] simply knowing that we have a problem does not solve the problem, although it helps. (Ratey and Johnson, Shadow Syndromes, p. 335)

... the anxious person may spend hours of his day ruminating about whatever worry currently lays claim to his soul. (Ratey and Johnson, Shadow Syndromes, p. 280)

When you are not in perfect harmony with yourself, you are your own worst enemy. (Thomas 'A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, Chapter 13, p. 100)
25 March 2012

Friday, December 2, 2011

Obsession

An obsession is a repetitive or persistent thought or idea which crowds into the mind and thus helps to relieve one's basic anxiety.  (Selwyn Hughes, Every Day Light, Day 326) 2 November 2011

Monday, October 18, 2010

Addiction

An addiction, once it becomes a habit, also becomes an obsession, a true insanity that condemns a person to continue using against their will. (after Bill in As Bill Sees It, p. 283) 18/Oct/2010 8:07