The very fact that it might not work is precisely why you should and must do this.

If you accept that human beings are difficult to change, and embrace (rather than curse) the uniqueness that everyone brings to the table, you’ll navigate the world with more bliss and effectiveness. And make better decisions, too.

When your ideas about yourself change, so does your experience.

You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.

It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.

The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance

I'm not sure there's any number of Facebook likes that can replace a hug.