The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to try to do this, even though he has to risk defeat or failure. He should be adventurous (though not necessarily foolhardy); be willing to try almost anything once, just to see how he likes it; and look forward to some breaks in his usual life routines.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.