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.
Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don’t get him on the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch…as I was saying to Mr. Crouch… Mr. Crouch is of the opinion… Mr. Crouch was telling me… They’ll be announcing their engagement any day now.
Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.
Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.
The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth.
There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.
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