Naysayers Have Little Power Over Us -

More Young People Are Volunteering Than Ever Before. More People Are Including Service To Others On Their Busy Lives' To Do List. The Promise Of America Is Embedded Deep In Our Dna, Calling Us To A Much Less Shallow Search For Happiness And Meaning.

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The First And Most Important Step Is To Realize That, As My Mother Used To Say, Fearlessness Isn't The Absence Of Fear, But The Mastery Of Fear. It's Not That You Never Have Fear, But That You Don't Let Your Fears Stop You.

To Speak About This Universal Force That Will Lead Us Beyond On The Last Horizon Of Our Known Self Toward A Wiser, More Loving, More Luminous States Of Being, We Do Not Need To Invent A New Language. But We Do Need To Listen To The Old, The Ancient One, Not With Our Jaded Minds, But With Our Awakened Souls.

It Is Easier To Overcome People's Judgments Than To Overcome Our Own Self-judgment.