Children who are abused may grow up constructing a hopeless, or vindictive, image of self. In Jesus’ encounter with the man possessed by demons, he asked “What is your name?” The answer was, “My name is Legion, for I am in many pieces” (see Mark 5:1-20). People who have such a distorted self nevertheless feel compelled to satisfy its needs. If they think they need more power, or money, or love, or adventure, they will do everything to satisfy that need even beyond what is good for them in the long run. In such cases a person’s psychic energy, directed by an ill-conceived ego, is likely to cause entropy in the environment as well as within consciousness. As soon as the man was able to label and thereby identify his experience, he began to recover his peace.  #RyanPhillippe 1 of 10

Being without a sense of self, an animal will exert itself until its biological needs are satisfied, but not much further. It will attack prey, defend its territory, fight for a mate, but when these imperatives are taken care of, it will rest. If, however, a man develops a self-image based on power, or wealth, there are no limits to his exertions. He will pursue the goal set by the self relentlessly, even if he has to ruin his health in the process, even if he has to destroy other people along the way. It is important that one gets to know oneself, and understand its peculiarities. It is then possible to separate those needs that really help us to navigate through life, from those malignant growths that sprout from them and make our lives miserable.  #RyanPhillippe 2 of 10

Out of the forgiveness of others come self-forgiveness and the relief of guilt. With this increased awareness of who we really are comes the progressive invulnerability to pain. Once we compassionately accept our own humanness and that of others, we are no longer subject to humiliation, for true humility is part of greatness. Out of recognition of who we really are comes the desire to seek that which is uplifting. Out of it arises a new meaning and context for life. When that inner emptiness, due to lack of self-worth, is replaced by true self-love, self-respect, and esteem, we no longer have to seek it in the World, for that source of happiness is in ourselves. I can forget the unreturned fate, but I cannot forget your image and my love.  #RyanPhillippe 3 of 10

When you can run into a devoted friend persistent in promise, faith, courage, and loyalty, you feel like an eagle soaring in the sky and a fish swimming in the sea, and you will never feel lonely. No amount of riches can compensate for the inner feeling of poverty. We all know many multimillionaires who try to compensate for their inner sense of hollowness and lack of inner worth. Once we have contacted this inner Self, this inner greatness, this inner completion, contentment, and true sense of happiness, we have transcended the World. The World is now a place to enjoy, and we are no longer run by it. We are no longer at the effect of it.  #RyanPhillippe 4 of 10

Instead of being goal oriented, sometimes we have to trust in the unfolding process of self-discovery. Become more frequently open emotionally, present in the moment, engaged in activities, intimate, spacious, and compassionate. My attention tends to be more innocent and affectionate, and naturally I have a unique flavor and presentation because of my personality, gifts, and life experiences. Every thought, feeling, and sensation is acceptable in the space of just being together. It is an open space to simply be with self and another individual without an agenda to fix or change anything. This way of being together can continue as long as it feels fruitful to both parties. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 10

It is not the setback that is dreadful, but the despair in failure and repentance. All can start anew, and hope is within you. On the voyage of our life, everything will become antiquated except time. There is a red Sun greeting you everyday. It is another promising day, please cherish it! As we sit in this quiet contact, we are aware of various thoughts, feelings, and sensations. Because we are relatively peaceful within, we have discovered that these thoughts, feelings, and sensations often correspond to what are mate is experiencing at the same time. This is the surprising phenomenon of empathic resonance, which happens more frequently as the shared field between mates deepens.  #RyanPhillippe 6 of 10

Empathic resonance sounds so nice to me, it is a chance to vibe with someone and become intimate, without getting sexual or having a superficial conversation. Have you ever been on a date, or been in love with someone and not want to spend time talk about your life or the past, but would like to fast forward through that and just sit together, watch TV, listen to music, or your thoughts and just be present in that moment without putting on a show? Well, that is basically empathic resonance. Usually there is a mutual sensation of dropping into a deeper place together. It is like a collaborative exploration. The intimacy of this shared field sometimes also brings up one’s resistance to being present and letting go.  #RyanPhillippe 7 of 10

Often times people report negative self-judgments, strong feeling such as fear, shame, anger, or grief, as well as sensations of contraction in our bodies. Transderential phenomena are very common. It is the unconscious redirection of the feelings from on person to another. Some may project a critical, abusive, engulfing, or uncaring caretaker onto their mate, and fear attack, absorption, dependency, or abandonment. Alternatively, they may idealize their partner as the loving, caring, and protective reincarnation, of some important figure out of his childhood or past, and consequently transfers on to him feelings and reactions which undoubtedly applied to this prototype. The intimacy of the contact may also evoke strong erotic feelings when there are sensations of melting and merging.  #RyanPhillippe 8 of 10

This fact of transference soon proves to be a factor of undreamt-of importance, on the other hand a source of serious dangers. This transference is ambivalent: it comprises beneficial (affectionate) as well as negative (hostile) attitudes towards the objection of your affection. The reason being there may be a few misunderstandings between the two and they have not been able to expression them, but the feeling of love is the strongest emotion. Likely, they have both done things to hurt each other, but more loving things than unloving. So sometimes old memories come up or an illusion may create a situation, which disrupts their harmony.  The good thing is the couple is not trying to impress each other, they are able to be real and move forward.  #RyanPhillippe 9 of 10

Together, the two have been able to become a true motivating force and are not worried about winning love nor applause. Other aspects of the two, as they pick up their shattered souls, becomes strong; under each other’s influence they are able to achieve things that would ordinarily be beyond their power; they leave off the symptoms and seem apparently to have recovered—merely for the sake of their relationship. Both may admit that they set out on a difficult undertaking without any suspicion of the extraordinary powers that would be at their command. As obstacles in the castle stir up the gurgling, hardships and setbacks in the lifetime, they also facilitate two rational people to compose splendid music movement.  #RyanPhillippe 10 of 10

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