It's Not That Achievements Prove Our Worth

You Are Not Likely To Bring Out The Best In People Or Nurture Their Creativity If Every Time You Hear About Their Problems You Instantly Offer A Solution Encourage People To Look For Their Own Solutions-and Project The Knowledge That They Are Capable Of Doing So.

To Accept Struggle As Part Of Life, To Accept All Of It, Even The Darkest Moments Of Anguish; To Be Motivated By Love Rather Than Fear, By Confidence Rather Than Insecurity: These Are The Benchmarks Of High Self-esteem. The Wish To Avoid Fear And Pain Is Not The Motive That Drives The Lives Of Highly Evolved Men And Women; Rather, It Is The Life Force Within Them, Thrusting Toward Its Unique Form Of Expression-the Actualization Of Personal Values.

Faith Is The Commitment Of One's Consciousness To Beliefs For Which One Has No Sensory Evidence Or Rational Proof. When Man Rejects Reason As His Standard Of Judgement, Only One Alternative Standard Remains To Him: His Feelings. A Mystic Is A Man Who Treats His Feelings As Tools Of Cognition. Faith Is The Equation Of Feelings With Knowledge

It Is Painful To Face The Self We Know We Have Never Had The Integrity To Honor And Assert.

Loving Consciously Does Not Mean Subjecting Your Relationship To Endless Analysis. It Means Something Much Simpler: Paying Attention. Noticing. This Requires Presence.