eyes opened wide

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Dr. Brown talks from the heart about the importance of developing courage, vulnerability and connectivity.

Summary of Topics:
• How we make joy foreboding
• Low grade connection
• Perfectionism
• Faith – Vulnerability = Extremism
• Scarcity tells us we’re not enough
• The consequences of Invulnerability
• To be grateful
• To honor the ordinary

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Paranoid Personality Disorder Traits -- ICD-10

It is characterized by at least 3 of the following:

- excessive sensitivity to setbacks and rebuffs;

- tendency to bear grudges persistently, i.e. refusal to forgive insults and injuries or slights;

- suspiciousness and a pervasive tendency to distort experience by misconstruing the neutral or friendly actions of others as hostile or contemptuous;

- a combative and tenacious sense of personal rights out of keeping with the actual situation;

- recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding sexual fidelity of spouse or sexual partner;

- tendency to experience excessive self-importance, manifest in a persistent self-referential attitude;

- preoccupation with unsubstantiated "conspiratorial" explanations of events both immediate to the patient and in the world at large.

-- The World Health Organization

Quotes Worth Meditating

“The Good puts on the slowness of time as a poor garment, and in keeping with this change of dress one who serves it must be clothed in the insignificant figure of the unprofitable servant. With the eye of his senses, he is not permitted to see the Good in victory. Only with the eye of faith can he strive after its eternal victory.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard

“To the outside world we all grow old -- but not to [kindred spirits]. We know each other as we always are. We know each other's hearts... We live outside the touch of time.” ~ Clara Ortega*

* I modified this quote by replacing siblings for kindred spirits in order to widen the application...

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." ~ Richard Bach

“It is our personal responsibility to teach others how to treat us." ~ Laura Kamienski

"There is something in us that wants to be well, wants to come home to our best selves." ~ Kathleen Hawk

"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating." ~ Simon Weil

"I am where you are... an ordinary person trying to figure things out. I love. I experience beauty and pain, my friends die, I weep, I live. And as I live I try to figure out if there is a God, and what difference would that make..." ~ Philip Yancey

“When man contemplates history as it is, he is forced to realize that he is in the iron grip of an existence that seems to have no real care, nor concern for his pain and suffering.” ~ Laura Knight Jadczyk

" When we're working through any residual issues we may have from childhood or an abusive adult relationship, compassionate friendships hold us steady when we fear we cannot stand alone." ~ Charlotte Z. Cavatica

"Relationship is not about having another complete you; but to have another with whom you share your completeness." ~ Vicky Jo Varner

Finding contentment as a single person is probably the best indicator of how someone is going to get along with his or her future partner.

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate" ~ Carl Jung

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