Doing More Of What Doesn't Work Doesn't

One Of The Characteristics Of Love Relationships That Flower Is A Relatively High Degree Of Mutual Self-disclosure - A Willingness To Let Our Partner Enter Into The Interior Of Our Private World And A Genuine Interest In The Private World Of That Partner. Couples In Love Tend To Show More Of Themselves To Each Other Than To Any Other Person.

The Lies Most Devastating To Our Self-esteem Are Not So Much The Lies We Tell As The Lies We Live.

In A World In Which We Are Exposed To More Information, More Options, More Philosophies, More Perspectives Than Ever Before, In Which We Must Choose The Values By Which We Will Live (rather Than Unquestioningly Follow Some Tradition For No Better Reason Than That Our Own Parents Did), We Need To Be Willing To Stand On Our Own Judgment And Trust Our Own Intelligence-to Look At The World Through Our Own Eyes-to Chart Our Course And Think Through How To Achieve The Future We Want, To Commit Ourselves To Continuous Questioning And Learning-to Be, In A Word, Self-responsible.

I Believe That Earning Your Living Doing Something You Enjoy Is One Of The Very Best Ways To Nourish Yourself. But Even If You Are Employed At Something That Is Not Your Ideal Work, It Is Important To Find Ways To Take As Much Pleasure In It As Possible. Living In The Present Moment Can Make Ordinary Activities More Interesting And Joyful; You May Be Surprised, If You Only Look, At What You Will Find. If You Try To Stay Connected With Why You Are Doing What You Are Doing, For Example, Then Even The Parts Of Your Life That Aren't Especially Interesting Can Become More Meaningful.

A Commitment To Lifelong Learning Is A Natural Expression Of The Practice Of Living Consciously.