NORWOODGROEP FORUM

15 oktober

"When you read a self-help book and underline all the passages you think would help him, you are loving too much."

Als je een zelfhulpboek leest en je onderstreept alle passages waarvan je denkt dat die hem zouden kunnen helpen, dan heb je te zeer lief.

14 oktober

"Our work is ever with ourselves, with changing our own hearts."

Ons werk betreft altijd onszelf, het veranderen van ons eigen hart.

13 oktober "As women who love too much, we like to believe that we are capable of deep intimacy even though our partners aren't. However, we all tend to choose as partners people who are capable of the same level of intimacy as we are. If our partners cannot tolerate intimacy, we're with them p...

12 oktober "Within each person is an incredibly strong need to wrest a happy ending from even the most disastrous emotional alliances. This need in a woman who loves too much can be dangerous, even life-threatening." In ieder mens schuilt een ongelooflijk sterke behoefte om zelfs aan de me...

11 oktober "When you want to pick up the phone to call that impossible man, you are facing the same struggle as an alcoholic wanting to pick up that drink." Als je de telefoon wilt pakken om die onmogelijke man te bellen, sta je oog in oog met dezelfde strijd als een alcoholist die in de v...

10 oktober " The bad news is: There are no shortcuts out of the pattern of loving too much. Should you decide that you really do want to change, it will require - as all therapeutic change does - years of work and nothing short of your total commitment. The good news is: If you choose to begin ...

9 oktober

"When we measure the degree of our love by the depth of our torment, we are loving too much."

Wanneer we de mate van onze liefde afmeten aan de diepte van onze kwelling, hebben we te zeer lief.

8 oktober "If you want to get over a heartbreaking end to a relationship with as much speed and as little pain as possible, do this: Every time he comes into your thoughts, pray as sincerely as you can for his highest good. Period. Do not try to define what his highest good is , e.g., that he g...

7 oktober "Whether or not you believe in God, and, if you do, whether or not you're on speaking terms with Him, you can still develop your spirituality. Find out what brings you peace and serenity, and commit some time, at least half an hour daily, to that practice. This discipline can and will...

6 oktober "Developing your spirituality requires willingness , not faith. Often with willingness comes faith. If you don't want faith, you probably won't get it, but with a spiritual practice you will still find more serenity than you've had before." Het ontwikkelen van je spiritualiteit v...

5 oktober "Some parents provide the welcome gifts of love, security, understanding, and support, while other parents offer far less welcome and comforting qualities and conditions. Yet these, too, are gifts. Perhaps, in your family of origin… a cold, indifferent mother forced you to abandon you...

4 oktober "We may, in the depth of difficulty and despair, long for a happier history and more promising present conditions. For our spiritual development, however, our antagonists and afflictions are necessary foils against which we test ourselves in order to grow into all we are ultimately ca...

3 oktober "Many, many women who love too much discover that this obsession with another person represents, on a daily basis, ninety percent or more of who they are in terms of their thoughts, feelings, behavior, and use of their personal energy. Only ten percent is left over for dealing with ev...

2 oktober "Will you, like an alchemist striving to extract gold from base metals, search for what is precious among the dreariest and most discouraging aspects of your life? If you do, you will find it there, awaiting your conscious discovery." Ga jij, net als een alchemist die probeert om...

1 oktober "Our souls don't give us choices about the patterns of our lives. They know what we need to experience, and they cause us to attract those needed experiences without our conscious consent. But we do have choices as to how we confront those experiences. This is where our free will oper...