Saturday, August 27, 2016

Looking inward

Saw these on vacation..

The artist is Emerson

Love his stuff...


When children play pretend games and are swept away by their imaginations, it's endearing to watch. But when people carry this behavior into their adulthood, it's not cute and there are consequences for it. Creating a make-believe story about our lives rather than looking deeper at the truth, is called living in denial. There is nothing empowering about seeing life through an illusionary lens. If we aren't willing to face ourselves honestly, we can be assured that avoidance is the way we are trying to manage our pain. It will never work! Avoiding our authentic feelings only leads to numbness, judgment, unresolved anger, jealousy and insecurity, fear...