Jim Niswonger

“Getting out of a triangle drama is also simple, though not easy. It hinges on one act of integrity: acknowledging that we’re capable of choosing our responses to other people and situations, no matter what. We can end the futile drama of human conflict only when we accept that at a deep, existential level, we are free.”
― Martha Beck, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self

“Qualifying for commitment, not just if they have the cash, changes the game.”
― Travis Sago, Make 'Em Beg to Buy From You: 5 Preselling Secrets to Take Even Complete Strangers From Cold to Sold Before You Ever Make an Offer

“[...] our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities, that many of us are only too successful in acquiring a false self to adapt to false realities.”
― R.D. Laing, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

“His whole life has been torn between his desire to reveal himself and his desire to conceal himself. [...] We have our secrets and our needs to confess. We may remember how, in childhood, adults at first were able to look right through us, and into us, and what an accomplishment it was when we, in fear and trembling, could tell our first lie, and make, for ourselves, the discovery that we are irredeemably alone in certain respects, and know that within the territory of ourselves there can be only our footprints.”
― R.D. Laing, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness