If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.

Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.

People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.

What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.

If you want to feel a certain way, feel it now.

We have a choice. We can love our lives trying to conform to some nebulous standard, or we can live our lives seeing how everything works. When we step back and look at it that way, it is obvious that the attitude of fascination is the only intelligent one to bring to anything.

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.