It is true that people are sometimes hit by adversities beyond their control. But those so affected are better helped when they are awakened to the resources they do possess than when they are told they don't have any.

The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.

The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.

I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them.

An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.

A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously.

Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.