If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?...A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our beings - in other words, its core. This core is of an entirely different nature from all the elements (physical sensations, feelings, thoughts and so on) that make up our personality. As a consequence, it can act as a unifying center, directing those element and bring them into the unity of an organic wholeness.

We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.

To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if done with intelligence and tact, is the kindest thing to do because it respects our own integrity and acknowledges in others the capacity to be competent and mature.

It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.