Conscious pain > Pain outsourced to the unconscious

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”

“‘Taste is relative’ is the excuse adopted by those eras that have bad taste. […] The modernist thirst for originality makes the mediocre artist believe that the secret of originality consists simply in being different.”