Your Trauma Is Giving Birth To a Dancing Star
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Channel: Mark Smith Family Tree Life Coaching · 2017 · People & Blogs
Irvin Yalom “When Nietzsche Wept” I am not a Nietzsche Expert Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) - a German philosopher, whose critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered on a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality. 1. "I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” • Chaos is a perfect word to describe NAS • Gift, Blessing, Opportunity • How much my inner child has healed • Dancing Star – Self Actualization, Thriving 2. “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.” • When traumatized it would be VERY EASY to become a monster! • Don’t become obsessed with monsters either – just be aware • We can become overly dark, paranoid – the goal is to become a dancing star 3. “We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.” • I LOVE the phrase “the true helmsman” • Your pain from relationships is NOT a mindless act of chance .
