Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.
A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.
I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.
I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.
No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.