Psychopath and Narcissist Survivors Support Group

Legend · Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 124 Location: Southeast USA

Hey,

This can pertain to most anything, but when I read it, I thought of my desire of educating the public about NPD.

"The tribute to learning is teaching." Wise Saying from the Orient

I found the quote on my Good Earth tea bag. Gotta love Green Tea.

Hugs,
Legend
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"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin

"Realize your personal legend." Paulo Coelho

Quiller · Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 1

MAYBE WE MEET A FEW WRONG PEOPLE BEFORE WE MEET THE RIGHT ONE,.....SO THAT WE KNOW HOW TO BE GRATEFUL WHEN WE MEET THE RIGHT ONE. Shocked

NO ONE IS WORTH YOUR TEARS, AND THE ONE THAT IS, WON'T MAKE YOU CRY Crying or Very sad

THE WORST PART OF MISSING SOMEONE IS TO BE SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO THEM KNOWING YOU CAN'T HAVE THEM Sad

BEST FOR LAST

I PRAY THEE SEND MY HEART BACK
SINCE I CANNOT HAVE THINE
FOR IF FROM THINE THOW WILT NOT PART
THEN WAY SHOULDST THOW HAVE MINE
Confused

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thayilflies · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 488

"If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first." - Kurt Cobain

Hardly inspirational but I like it.

thayilflies · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 488

I've been reading Jim Morrison quotes. He was very wise and I believe his antics often overshadowed his intelligence which is a shame because he had much to share. Also Morrison practiced NC and was born to authoritarian parents: he was an unloved child who broke free. I think these are fantastic insights. Thanks Jim.

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."

"That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act- and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession."

"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain."

"When you make your peace with authority, you become authority."

"We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict."

"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."

"We're like actors, turned loose in this world to wander in search of a phantom, endlessly searching for a half-formed shadow of our lost reality. When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder. The most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces."

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on and individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you."

"Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies."

"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."

"Hatred is a very underestimated emotion."

"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to-letting a person be what he really is."

"I offer images- I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached- like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors, we can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free. Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything- not just wealth. All the bullshit that he's been taught- all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that."

"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything."

"How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie – people claim they want to be free – everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security…How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free."

http://www.tv.com/jim-morrison/person/101716/trivia.html

Riccy101 · Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 287

Hi Thay.

JM was brilliant yet he was troubled. The object is to find a happy medium. Maybe if support groups like these existed in the 60's? But then, there are still people dying young from overdoses of everything from alcohol, drugs, sex and food, today, when information is readily available....

Just a thought.

Riccy

thayilflies · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 488

Was JM troubled or did he choose to live that way? I think JM was troubled but I also believe he knew exactly what he was doing. Despite being a heavy drinker and doing a lot of LSD in his early years I doubt he was ever drug dependent. I think the difference between JM and many of his contemporaries is that his reckless behaviour was his own calculated decision. I may well be wrong. I do agree though Riccy, that a happy medium is the way to go.

Riccy101 · Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 287

Hi Thay.

That's the million dollar question. I think about actors like Chis Farley, who I loved, and wonder why they chose the self destructive behavior when they seemed to have it all.

thayilflies · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 488

JM said he had the soul of a clown. He enjoyed living recklessly, it made him happy. That is how he expressed himself best I suppose?