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• Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.

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  Powerful, Feelings, Way

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.124, Health Communications, Inc.

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• The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic.

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  Stars, Powerful, Shame

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.34, Health Communications, Inc.

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• To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your human life is grounded in your feelings, needs and drives. When these are bound by shame, you are shamed to the core.

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  Mean, Feelings, Needs

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.32, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

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  Relationship, Children, Reality

  John Bradshaw (2013). “Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child”, p.55, Bantam

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• The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness.

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  Spiritual, Journey, Benefits

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem”, p.247, Health Communications, Inc.

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• The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring.

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  Self Esteem, Years, Foundation

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem”, p.49, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

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  Inner Strength, Virtue

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• The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.

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  Dog, Responsibility, Suffering

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• It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

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  Truth, Pain, Lying

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• Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

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  Children, Risk, World

  John Bradshaw (2013). “Creating Love: A New Way of Understanding Our Most Important Relationships”, p.115, Bantam

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• I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their shadow - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

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  Evil, Broken, Shadow

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• Children aren't fooled. They know we give time to the things we love.

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  Children, Giving, Fooled

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• Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

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  Growing Up, Self Esteem, Home

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• That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little answer...Something simply works...We don't really know how it works. We say we do. We know one or two things we can see and measure.

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  Dark, Two, Doctors

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• Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.

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  Dark, Order, Evil

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• I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.

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  Hurt, People, Numb

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• You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

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  Passion, Energy, Want

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• Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

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  Moving, Healthy, Needs

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.7, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious thoughts. This is not surprising, since neither scientists nor philosophers can agree about what the consciousness of humans consists of, let alone that of animals.

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  Dog, Animal, Self

  John Bradshaw (2014). “Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You A Better Friend to Your Pet”, p.182, Basic Books

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• There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

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  Dark, Medicine, Age

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