A batch of the best highlights from what Lukas's read, .
Being an ‘inverted narcissist’ means being addicted to the shameless. You derive a sense of self when you are serving the narcissist. The concepts of grandiosity and hierarchy become deeply internalised, where you grow accustomed to living under the shadow of a ‘superior’ person and deferring life’s challenges to them.
How to Kill a Narcissist
JH Simon
Our civilization, which claims that it does not exercise any constraints, tries to seize human beings in their totality and confine them within a detailed framework, in which all their gestures and secret thoughts will be controlled by the social system.
Presence in the Modern World
Jacques Ellul, Ted Lewis, and Lisa Richmond
If we know him, we already have the most precious thing this life affords. In him we receive complete forgiveness, absolute security as much-loved children of God, and the certain hope of being with him for ever.