‘Message to Highly Sensitive People’ by Prof. Kazimierz Dabrowski

Kazimierz Dabrowski (September 1, 1902–November 26, 1980)

Polish born doctor of medicine and philosophy, studied in Paris, Geniva, Wilnus, Harvard, Baltimore nad Canada. Received multiple grands from Rockefeller Foundation, Ford and ONZ to name but a few.

Professor Dabrowski was known for pushing the line between healthy psyche and mental illnes. He was the author of the Positive Disintegration Theory, which declares that the most effective way of self development is through disintegration of the primal personality on different levels to begin with. Puting the pieces back together would create new supreme personality. In his theory, the disintegration is the driving force for development. It can be chaotic and spontaneous at first, but then we learn to navigate the process.

Professor Dabrowski initiated and fomented the move for general psychological hygiene, wrote theses on the conditions of suicide, worked with kids morally or psychologically disturbed. He was a strong advocate for humaniarian patient treatment at the times of lobotomy being amost aclaimed and spread psychological procedure.

Message to highly sensitive people

(translation — Diana Mroczek)

Greetings, highly sensitive people,

for your tenderness in the callousness of the world, for your insecurity — among it’s certainty

for feeling others like yourselves, getting infected with every torment

for the fear of the world, it’s blind certainty that has no limit

for the need of cleaning your hands from even the invisible earthly dirt,

greetings.

Greetings, highly sensitive people,

for your fear of the existential absurdity

and the gentleness of not saying to others what you see in them

for the helplessness in ordinary matters and the ability to interact with extraordinariness

for transcendental realism and lack of life realism,

for the maladjustment to what is and adjustment to what should be

for what is infinite — unknown — unspoken

hidden in you.

Greetings, highly sensitive people,

for your creativity and ecstasy

for your avid friendships, love and fear

that love could die yet before you

Greetings

for your talents — never utilised (underestimation of your greatness will not allow to recognise the greatness of those, who come after you)

for the fact that they want to change you, instead of following you

that you are being fixed instead of fixing the world

for your divine gifts ravaged by brut force

for uniqueness and loneliness of your paths

Greetings, highly sensitive people

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This post was previously published on medium.com.

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