“The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.”
Sam Vaknin
This piece by David Cay Johnston below is a reprise of a video posted here on 25 September 2016
"'I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’ No, father Abraham,’ the rich man said, ‘but if someone from the dead appears to them, they will repent.’ And Abraham said, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not change and repent, even if someone were to rise from the dead.’” Luke 16:27-31
“The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.”
Sam Vaknin
"The Unspeakable—
It is the void that contradicts everything that is spoken even before the words are said; the void that gets into the language of public and official declarations at the very moment when they are pronounced, and makes them ring dead with the hollowness of the abyss.
It is the emptiness of the end. It is the void out of which Eichmann drew the punctilious exactitude of his obedience.
You are in no position to issue commands, but you can speak words of hope.
Shall this be the substance of your message? Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man, for it is the image of God."
Thomas Merton