Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge

It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding--from others and also from themselves.

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value.

If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.