jorge bucay stories to think about english edition

#Jorge bucay stories to think about english edition series

– We eat fruits that someone else planted and took care of years ago. – Anyone who wants the absolute truth should be ready to lose his/her calmness forever. – No one is more possible to be deceived than the one who will satisfy his/her desires with the lie. Additionally, someone could be straight but not honest. – Straightness is something different than honesty. We lie because we don’t want to be on a difficult or unpleasant position and we slightly think about others. – When someone lies, he/she lies first to himself/herself. Truth could be different for everyone and has to do with the way someone understands the world. – Not telling the truth doesn’t mean lying. – Things exist only when their exactly opposite thing exists. Something that costs a lot of money is not necessarily important, and precious doesn’t mean that it costs a lot. If we do this mistake we will end up kind of crazy, without balance and self-knowledge. – All of us need approval by others but that doesn’t mean we have to abandon ourselves. The rest of our lives is our effort to live these moments.

– We wake up to see the truth not once, but many times in our lives. And how we will keep dreaming happiness if we have what we want? – If we succeed having what we don’t have, we won’t be happy because the moment we have what we want, we stop wanting what we always wanted since now we have it. – Accepting is different than compromising. – We decide whether we grow up or we remain children. – Deaf people always think that people who dance are probably crazy. – Rest, change of actions and variety help us be productive. This is not a natural way for things to be. – We should not push others to feel solidarity because it’s like pushing the water inside a river to flow. No one has a debt to someone because no one owns something to others. – We should give and not expect getting something back.

– Guilt: Twelve hours per day we feel guilty for who we are and the rest hours we do whatever we can to make lives of other people miserable by telling them what to do. – Sometimes we should stay alone to discover who we are. If we don’t want risks then we should compromise by walking. – If we want to fly we should start risking. If we put borders between us and others, we may destroy our relationships. – We should know when someone feels unwanted, despised, blocked. – Projection: Every time I notice something irritating to another person, I should realize that what I see is – at least – mine too. Fortunately during our life journey we have co-travelers. – A cleft birth and a coffin are two places made for only one person. There were always here, so we can never lose them. – When we possess something and we get addicted to it, who belongs to who? Who is the holder of who? However, if there is a difficulty we should manage is the one we experience while we help others. – Sometimes life can be difficult while we try to help someone. The only occasion we should push ourselves is during constipation. We should only try to find satisfaction for ourselves. – Don’t feel loser even if you lose battles. – You should know also this is going to pass. There is no worth of going around and asking from random people to appreciate our real value.

As a jewel it should be evaluated by a true specialist. – Every person is a unique and precious jewel. All the anger, the bad mood and the aggressiveness we may feel is turned against us and it will be transformed to actions of self-punishment or hidden emotions. This wall doesn’t make this energy disappear, it sends it back. In other words our aggressive and violent energy is held back by a wall we put before it reaches another person. – Feedback: A way to protect others from our aggressiveness. – We don’t get fed with a breast but with milk! – A myth, a fairy-tale or a joke could be remembered a hundred times more clearly than thousands of theories, psychoanalytic definitions and arguments. But the only way to see if now we can do it or not is by trying with all our hearts! – We live believing that we “can’t” do a lot of things, just because one time when we were young we tried but we couldn’t do something. While I was reading it I kept some notes that I want to share with you.

#Jorge bucay stories to think about english edition series

It is consisted of a series of beautiful stories of folk wisdom and philosophical thought. “Let me tell you a story” is one of his most famous and read books. Jorge Bucay is a well-known doctor and psychotherapist who has written dozens of books regarding self-knowledge, philosophy and psychology.