{"author":"Alexandra Katehakis","author_id":"Alexandra+Katehakis","total_quotes":27,"quotes":[{"text":"People often ask: If there’s a God, how can He allow so much suffering in the world? Realize all world suffering you perceive is a mirror to your own psychological self-abuse, gender imbalance, prejudice, poverty, and hunger. You couldn’t even perceive each suffering aspect of external reality if it didn’t already exist within you. Touch and transmute your own psychological suffering, and perceive the world in kind.","author":"Alexandra Katehakis","tags":["god","mirror","perception","suffering","suffering-of-humanity","transmute","world-suffering"],"id":50665,"author_id":"Alexandra+Katehakis"},{"text":"Tread lightly on your partner’s heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.","author":"Alexandra Katehakis","tags":["coupleship","heart","partner","safekeeping","tread-lightly"],"id":55470,"author_id":"Alexandra+Katehakis"},{"text":"Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don’t, but half the time that’s a lie: We tell ourselves the fairy tale of our hatreds out of fear, but we revisit that tale as it suits us. Deep down, we’d love to love and be loved by all.","author":"Alexandra Katehakis","tags":["connection","hatred","love","preference"],"id":62731,"author_id":"Alexandra+Katehakis"},{"text":"Summoning gratitude is a sure way to get our life back on track. Opening our eyes to affirm gratitude grows the garden of our inner abundance, just as standing close to a fire eventually warms our heart.","author":"Alexandra Katehakis","tags":["abundance","affirm","gratitude","warm-the-heart"],"id":68751,"author_id":"Alexandra+Katehakis"},{"text":"If we don’t honor our truth, how can we expect anyone else to do so?","author":"Alexandra Katehakis","tags":["honor-truth","truth"],"id":81738,"author_id":"Alexandra+Katehakis"},{"text":"Sometimes what we seek to gain through 'winning' a conflict is not worth what we're refusing to sacrifice. And true compromise often involves sacrifice: As on the path between Scylla and Charybdis, the monsters of Greek mythology who lie on either side of a narrow strait to devour sailors and ships, either way you go there will be losses. Through life experience we gradually learn to differentiate between the ideals, values and principles which can, and those which cannot, be compromised.","author":"Alexandra Katehakis","tags":["charybdis","compromise","conflict","mediation","sacrifice","scylla"],"id":98119,"author_id":"Alexandra+Katehakis"},{"text":"When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.","author":"Alexandra Katehakis","tags":["abandonment","childhood","loneliness","neglect"],"id":100311,"author_id":"Alexandra+Katehakis"},{"text":"The process of dissociation is an elegant mechanism built into the human psychological system as a form of escape from (sometimes literally) going crazy. The problem with checking out so thoroughly is that it can leave us feeling dead inside, with little or no ability to feel our feelings in our bodies. The process of repair demands a re-association with the body, a commitment to dive into the body and feel today what we couldn’t feel yesterday because it was too dangerous.","author":"Alexandra Katehakis","tags":["defense","dissociation","mechanism","psychology","repair","trauma"],"id":108507,"author_id":"Alexandra+Katehakis"},{"text":"Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to present a coherent life narrative through the safe structure of clear rules of communication that support healthy self-expression and self-awareness.","author":"Alexandra Katehakis","tags":["12-step","coherent-narrative","communication","narrative","self-awareness","self-expression","therapy"],"id":109245,"author_id":"Alexandra+Katehakis"},{"text":"When we are able to look beyond appearances and to behold that which we truly are, we recognize that our essence is interwoven with the divine and that we exist as one of its expressions.","author":"Alexandra Katehakis","tags":["appearances","divine","essence","vision"],"id":120432,"author_id":"Alexandra+Katehakis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}