The gift you carry for others is not an attempt to save the world but to fully belong to it. It's not possible to save the world by trying to save it. You need to find what is genuilely yours to offer the world before you can make it a better place. (...) The offering of that gift - your true self - is the most you can do to love and serve the world. And it is all the world needs.
B.Plotkins, Soulcraft : Crossing into the mysteries of Nature and Psyche, New World Library, 2003, 13.
B.Plotkins, Soulcraft : Crossing into the mysteries of Nature and Psyche, New World Library, 2003, 13.
Do as much therapy, reading, writing, obsessing, questionning, crying, analyzing, dancing, exercising, building, snowboarding, and rebelling as you need to do to get what feels like your soul's song. Then sing it. No matter what everyone tells you, sing out. The Universe will thank you.
P.Prober, Your Rainforest Mind : a guide to the well-being of gifted adults and youth, GHF Press, 2016, 157.
P.Prober, Your Rainforest Mind : a guide to the well-being of gifted adults and youth, GHF Press, 2016, 157.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
H.D.Thoreau, Walden, Kindle edition.
H.D.Thoreau, Walden, Kindle edition.
The rain forest is not a better ecosystem, just more complicated. It also makes an essential contribution to the planet when allowed to be itself, rather than when cut down and turned into something that it is not.
P.Prober, Your Rainforest Mind : a guide to the well-being of gifted adults and youth, GHF Press, 2016, xi.
P.Prober, Your Rainforest Mind : a guide to the well-being of gifted adults and youth, GHF Press, 2016, xi.
Que je ne sache rien de moi-même, que Siddhartha soit demeuré si étranger et inconnu à lui-même, cela provient d'une cause, d'une cause unique : Je me faisais peur à moi-même, je me fuyais moi-même! (...) J'étais prêt à disséquer mon moi, à lui arracher chacune de ses pelures, pour découvrir tout au fond le noyau qu'elle recouvraient, l'Atman, la vie, le divin, le dernier. Mais au lieu de cela, c'est moi qui me suis perdu à moi-même.
H.Hesse, Siddhartha, Poche, 2017, 54.
H.Hesse, Siddhartha, Poche, 2017, 54.
Along with their "higher levels of empathy, sensitivity, moral responsability, self -reflection, and autonomy" often resides "intense inner conflict, feelings of inferiority toward their own ideals, feelings of inadequacy, shame and guilt, and existential anxiety and despair".
P.Prober, Your Rainforest Mind : a guide to the well-being of gifted adults and youth, GHF Press, 2016, 19.
P.Prober, Your Rainforest Mind : a guide to the well-being of gifted adults and youth, GHF Press, 2016, 19.
We have consciously and unconsciously created survival mechanisms that try to minimize or even halt that empathy - the taking as our own energy, pain, or situation of someone else. But those same defenses also prevent us from fully participating in and enjoying life.
D.Markowitz, Self care for the self awar, a guide for highly sensitive people, empaths, intuitives and healers, Balboa press, 2013, 7.
D.Markowitz, Self care for the self awar, a guide for highly sensitive people, empaths, intuitives and healers, Balboa press, 2013, 7.
Asking for help can be another challenge if you feel that you are supposed to know all of the answers.
P.Prober, Your Rainforest Mind : a guide to the well-being of gifted adults and youth, GHF Press, 2016, 59.
P.Prober, Your Rainforest Mind : a guide to the well-being of gifted adults and youth, GHF Press, 2016, 59.
