I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of appreciating others without judgment and respecting their boundaries.
Virginia Satir's quote highlights the essence of healthy relationships, advocating for a way of connecting with others that is based on appreciation, freedom, and mutual respect. It suggests that love and connection should be devoid of judgment, demands, or guilt, fostering an environment where individuals can authentically engage with one another without feeling pressured or invaded. This perspective invites a balance between closeness and autonomy, essential for nurturing meaningful connections.
In practice
During a workshop on healthy relationships, this quote can inspire discussions about boundaries.
Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.
The message sent is not always the message received.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.
Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.
I know that one day all transgender individuals will have the freedom to be who they are, no matter what. And we won't have to face the cruel judgments of society. We can just live our lives and be treated and respected like everyone else.
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?
Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.
Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.
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