You Gotta Keep That In Check -

Contempt Is The Weapon Of The Weak And A Defense Against One's Own Despised And Unwanted Feelings.

Experience Has Taught Us That We Have Only One Enduring Weapon In Our Struggle Against Mental Illness: The Emotional Discovery And Emotional Acceptance Of The Truth In The Individual And Unique History Of Our Childhood.

Someday We Will Regard Our Children Not As Creatures To Manipulate Or To Change But Rather As Messengers From A World We Once Deeply Knew, But Which We Have Long Since Forgotten, Who Can Reveal To Us More About The True Secrets Of Life, And Also Our Own Lives, Than Our Parents Were Ever Able To.

It Was Not The Beautiful Or Pleasant Feelings That Gave Me New Insight, But The Ones Against Which I Fought Most Strongly: Feelings That Made Me Experience Myself As Shabby, Petty, Mean, Helpless, Humiliated, Demanding, Resentful Or Confused, And Above All, Sad And Lonely. It Was Precisely Through These Experiences, Which I Had Shunned For So Long, That I Became Certain That I Now Understood Something About My Life, Stemming From The Core Of My Being, Something That I Could Not Have Learned From Any Book.

Genuine Feelings Are Never The Product Of Conscious Effort. They Are Quite Simply There, And They Are There For A Very Good Reason, Even If That Reason Is Not Always Apparent.