Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness. Authority as you usually think of it, is merely the excues the strone ones use to make others conform to what they want.

It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.