David W. Earle Quotes
Top 64 wise famous quotes and sayings by David W. Earle
David W. Earle Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The strange part about a person's lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.
When I looked at myself through the prism of awareness, great tears came as I connected with how this wounded child felt.
Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.
When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others' own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent.
Since the discovery of the fermented grape, humans have experienced the pain and the frustration of addiction.
Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.
Before the magic of recovery, I thought a perfect weekend involved hiding from myself with all the distractions life provides.
Rigid traditions capture souls
prisons of spiritual thought
man's religion has captured a god
grown too small and very weak.
prisons of spiritual thought
man's religion has captured a god
grown too small and very weak.
People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.
War on Drugs...will only be won when we point our thumbs at ourselves and ask the hard question: "How am I contributing to this problem?
The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.
If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.
We violated each other's boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of "just kidding.
World's definition of success
material validation of self
cold and naked substitute
for inner warmth and beauty.
material validation of self
cold and naked substitute
for inner warmth and beauty.
Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.
If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.
Crossing the Ring of Fire is..moving from the emotional shutdown of numbness through the flames of fear and entering into the healing arms of change.
When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned.
Granted, anger can be misplaced and is often destructive, but anger generates passion, and that energy, if used correctly, can be highly constructive.
Your feelings do not lie to you;
however, they may be based upon a false thought,or a true thought, or based upon incomplete information.
however, they may be based upon a false thought,or a true thought, or based upon incomplete information.
I, like you, was not depraved or defected before birth but created to be magnificent, a wonderful and freeing realization - simple but explosive.
For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power.
Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream
and died without joy,in silence and isolation.
and died without joy,in silence and isolation.
Chaos limits the free-flow of love and becomes a roadblock to what family members want most and sadly, it becomes the normal for the family.
Oh, because you're an alcoholic." Only when I heard those words did it filter through my own denial. Only then did I gain understanding.
Until I face the emptiness in my soul
and know this spirit within me,
I have not yet begun to live,
nor touched the face of God.
and know this spirit within me,
I have not yet begun to live,
nor touched the face of God.