Loving consciously does not mean subjecting your relationship to endless analysis. It means something much simpler: paying attention. Noticing. This requires presence.

A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

When you are frightened, you typically pull energy in to your center, seeing less, hearing less-shrinking consciousness precisely when you need to expand it.

Set goals that don't feel all that easy, that challenge you, stimulate you, and give you a chance to stretch and push yourself. That is where the power of growth lies.

Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.

The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.