You Are Valuable

Art: Interesni Kazki

You just have to realize it.

By having the courage to stand for one’s own experience, one begins to give real being to the soul. Everything depends on the individual’s ability to stand for their own experience(symptoms, suffering and accomplishments) in the face of the world that gives these things no credit.

James Hillman

Ask yourself: As a child, who saw you? Who heard you? Was there anyone with whom you could be totally yourself and to whom you could trust your heart responses and speak your soul responses? Someone who made you think, “Gosh, I am somebody. They’re happy that I’m here.” — Marion Wood

“The cost of sanity, in this society, is a certain level of alienation,” — Terence McKenna

As a child, my friends were dogs, cats and horses. I spent more time with them than my brothers. I saw their understanding in their eyes. I felt their suffering and I also felt their enthusiasm and playfulness. They were so alive, so intelligently alive, so brave. They knew we were a little stupid and committed themselves to protecting us. I missed them when I went off to boarding school. I was heartsick when they met an accident or died.

I never had to worry that they didn’t see me, as I did with humans. They knew me and trusted me…