To the extent that you are incapable of giving mature love and affection, so will you need to receive love and affection. Or if your need for approval is inordinately strong, it is so in proportion to your disapproval of yourself. And why you disapprove of yourself, we went into when discussing the subject of stringent standards you think you should live up to, and because you cannot do so, you take to moralizing with yourself.
Pathwork Guide Lecture No. 90
An Unedited Lecture October 13, 1961
MORALIZING; DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS; NEEDS
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