State of Mind

[BeingMe]

Hi, y'all! I just got back from Portland, OR, on Monday night. I spent a week with husband. No major breakthroughs, or anything, but it was nice to hang out. We also met a few new people, and that was fun.

Found these insightful quotes, which I will print and hang on my vision board (when I get around to doing one).

Edwin H. Friedman: "The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech."

Tom Robbins: "The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." Still Life With Woodpecker