“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
What is a proper disposition towards life? It is to accept God as a loving father, who is full of tenderness and forgiveness for us, despite our willful blunders and hardened hearts. He yearns for us, as a father and mother yearn for the return of their most beloved child. It is to accept that we are not lost, we are not abandoned. We are wandering like a wayward child, full of our own headstrong delusions. And our father waits expectantly, calling out for us through the darkness. Jesse, 2018
“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