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barefootwriter:
These all struck me ast one time or another, and are relevant to the discussions here:

“To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.”
– Fritz Perls

“No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Lucky:
I find these very good quotes. Thank you.

Ami:
Wonderful Quotes. Thank you!                        Ami

Sealynx:

--- Quote from: barefootwriter on September 01, 2009, 07:03:39 PM ---

“To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes


--- End quote ---

Estes has some wonderful things to say about the "unmothered child." Have you read her retelling of the Inuit story of the "Stone Child". This retelling seems accurate...
http://uselessscience.com/forum/index.php?topic=392.0

Though the story has a happy ending. Most of ours do not. Our stone mother will never crack open...only continue to steal our warmth until we die.
S

Dreamedeeri:
Yes, thanks for these quotes. I've been thinking a lot about dependence lately and these help me get a perspective on it.

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