Automatically respecting someone for their credentials or title or office, according to Doyle, is "like accepting an unfaithful wife. It's crazy to do that!"
The benefits of losing respect, by contrast, is serenity and the ability to communicate with really healthy people. That's how I see it.
Losing respect for the familiar can be very scary, though. We have to find healthy people to replace the ones for whom we've lost respect. That takes time and patience. It takes faith to believe that you are going to find them, while you sit in the void that's created by loss of respect.
Posted by Dee Ann Miller
at 12:01 AM CDT
