True sensitivity is a faculty that enables us
to travel very high and very far,
and to perceive and grasp the realities
of ever subtler worlds.
Hypersensitivity on the other hand is a manifestation
of the lower nature which,
because it takes itself for the centre of the world,
feels frustrated and hurt
when others show a lack of consideration,
and consequently responds aggressively.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Exaggerated sensitiveness
is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
-Alfred Adler
His heart was like a sensitive plant
that opens for a moment in the sunshine,
but curls up and shrinks into itself
at the slightest touch of the finger,
or the lightest breath of wind.
-Anne Bronte
Don't give in too much to feelings.
An overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession
on this shaky earth.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True sensitivity means being completely open
to the beauty and light of the divine world...
What is generally called sensitivity,
that is, our ability to feel upset
by indifference, scorn, criticism and humiliation
is in fact only susceptibility, sentimentality.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
