Remember that every use of force, even the smallest, creates a counterforce.
Resisting enculturation means making decisions for yourself and carrying them out as efficiently and quietly as possible. No bandwagons or hostile demonstrations where they will do no good. The foolis...
See yourself as someone who’s on this planet to assist others.
Self-actualizing people see the unfolding of God in everyone that they meet. They go beyond appearances. They are friendly with anyone and everyone regardless of class,
Stay humble; don’t interfere; respect your creative genius,
Sören Kierkegaard wrote, Once you label me, you negate me. When the individual must live up to the label, the self ceases to exist. The same is true of self-labels. You could be negating yourself by i...
Søren Kierkegaard, the famed Danish theologian, once put it, Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Tao Te Ching for
The artist creates something out of nothing! Without the thoughts and feelings of the artist, there would be no art. It’s their particular creative mind in contemplation that links to intention to giv...
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is yesterday…and the other day I do not wor...
To come to possess all desire the possession of nothing.
We are all infinite spiritual beings having a temporary human experience, and
When you live from the perspective of being able to say, I don’t know for certain, but I’m willing to listen, you become a person whom others identify with.
When you refrain from engaging in judgments based solely on looks, you paradoxically become an instrument for change.
When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from all the stones, and all growing things, and all animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you, and then they are p...
Which snowflake is the most magnificent? Is it possible that they are all magnificent—and that, celebrating their magnificence together they create an awesome display? Then they melt into each other,...
You are behaving as a fool if you look outside of you for an explanation of how you should feel or what you should do. Taking credit as well as responsibility for yourself is the first step to elimina...
You are the person responsible for how you feel. You feel what you think, and you can learn to think differently about anything—if you decide to do so.
You can be motivated out of a desire to grow rather than a need to repair your deficiencies. If you recognize that you can always grow, improve, become more and greater, that is enough.
You can have all visits back home be fond experiences, if you get a firm handle on your own struggle for independence from your parents. And if you model self-pride and self-worth for your children, t...
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