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Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from... →
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's... →
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework... →
Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose... →
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the... →
It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who... →
The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original... →
The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves... →
Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the... →
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.