The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.

We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.