We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.

There are principles that govern human effectiveness - natural laws in the human dimension that are just as real, just as unchanging and unarguably there as laws such as gravity are in the physical dimension.

The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.