I would like to beg you, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.  Don't search for answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is to ( Read more... )

about authenticity in the May-June 2008 issue of Psychology Today.

some of my favorite tidbits:

Authenticity is correlated with many aspects of psychological well-being, including vitality, self-esteem, and coping skills...Yet, increasingly, contemporary culture seems to mock the very idea that there is anything solid and true about the self.

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