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

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.

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.