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

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.

Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.

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

Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the concept of autonomy. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights

Anyone who really loves you wants you to be authentic. And anyone who doesn't want you to be authentic doesn't really love you.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.