Happen To Things, Don't Let Things Happen

The Great Contributors In Life Are Those Who, Though Afraid Of The Knock At The Door, Still Answer It.

If We Want To Make Relatively Minor Changes In Our Lives, We Can Perhaps Appropriately Focus On Our Attitudes And Behaviors. But If We Want To Make Significant, Quantum Change, We Need To Work On Our Basic Paradigms.

Innocent Pleasures In Moderation Can Provide Relaxation For The Body And Mind And Can Foster Family And Other Relationships. But Pleasure, Per Se, Offers No Deep, Lasting Satisfaction Or Sense Of Fulfillment. The Pleasure-centered Person, Too Soon Bored With Each Succeeding Level Of "fun," Constantly Cries For More And More. So The Next New Pleasure Has To Be Bigger And Better, More Exciting, With A Bigger "high." A Person In This State Becomes Almost Entirely Narcissistic, Interpreting All Of Life In Terms Of The Pleasure It Provides To The Self Here And Now.

When Your Happiness Comes Primarily From The Happiness Of Others, You Know You Have Moved From A 'me' Experience To A 'we' Experience. And The Whole Problem-solving And Opportunity-seizing Process Changes.

Fulfilling The Four Needs In An Integrated Way Is Like Combining Elements In Chemistry. When We Reach A "critical Mass" Of Integration, We Experience Spontaneous Combustion - An Explosion Of Inner Synergy That Ignites The Fire Within And Gives Vision, Passion, And A Spirit Of Adventure To Life.