ellie

I've known that I'm an INFJ for about 3 years. I'm fascinated with the book, Please Understand Me II. I love profiling peoples' personalities. I'm extreme in the 'F' department, scoring the maximum amount on the Myers-Briggs. This translates to me being extremely emotional and hard to understand by others.....and hard for me to understand others that aren't "full of emotion."

I'm a bit lonely right now. I'm in a relationship with a male who is an oscillating ENTP-INFP. I find myself with hardly any other friends nearby where I live. Now that I understand a bit more about my INFJ-self, I realize that I've always only had 1 or 2 good friends at a time but was able to get along with many personalities. I enjoy one-on-one or small group conversation the most.

I relate to buddhist concepts.

Survival skills, Native American Spirituality, Alternative medicine Bike riding, Kayaking The Old Farmers Almanac, The Four Agreements, Quantum Psychology, Carlos Castañeda, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Wayne Dyer Bambi, Johnny Depp, DMT: The Spirit Molecule Sheltered Turtle (Music), The Blue Goddess, Sound of light, Jeff Buckley, Dr. Slothclaw, Sonni Shine & The Underwater Sounds, The Dreamtime Project, Sonni Shine, Modest Mouse, Sublime, Coldplay, Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews Band, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, Drum Circle Finder, Shahram Shiva, The Beatles, Enya, Lifehouse, Beck, The Doors, Alanis Morissette "He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." --Immanuel Kant"A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast." --Proverbs 12:10"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." --Ghandi"In studying the traits and dispositions of the so-called lower animals, and contrasting them with man's, I find the result humiliating to me." --Mark Twain"I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man." --Ghandi"Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in sunset like supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep. This Love is beyond the study of theology, that old trickery and hypocrisy. If you want to improve your mind that way, sleep on. ...I've given up on my brain. I've torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. If you're not completely naked, wrap your beautiful robe of words around you, and sleep." -- RumiLove is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind of energy toward yourself- if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself- it is very difficult to take care of another person. In the Buddhist teaching, it's clear that to love oneself is the foundation of the love of other people. Love is a practice. Love is truly a practice. [Shambhala Sun March 2006 ]