William P. Young
William P. Young
William Paul Youngis a Canadian author. He wrote the novels The Shack, Cross Roads and Eve...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth11 May 1955
CountryCanada
self mind emotion
Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.
color soul emotion
Emotions are the colors of the soul.
perception emotion paradigm
Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.
believe emotional thinking
Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. So check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms - what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe.
children broken parent
In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all..
powerful lying safe
Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe & powerful.
beautiful soul fragility
The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.
believe metaphor
Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.
art laughter pain
Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.
life reality greater
This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.
thinking identity who-we-are
Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that's a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.
god trying santa
I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.
love-is stronger faults
[...] love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.
running wall pain
Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.