To Trust One's Mind And To Know

For Children Mastery Entails Struggle. This Means They Must Be Permitted To Struggle. If Parents Inappropriately Step In To "help"-out Of Impatience Or Solicitude-they Sabotage Important Learning. Among Other Things, The Child Is Unlikely To Discover The Advantages Of Perseverance And Self-discipline.

The More You Surrender To The Fear Of Someone's Disapproval, The More You Lose Face In Your Own Eyes, And The More Desperate You Become For Someone's Approval. Within You Is A Void That Should Have Been Filled By Self-esteem. When You Attempt To Fill It With The Approval Of Others Instead, The Void Grows Deeper And The Hunger For Acceptance And Approval Grows Stronger. The Only Solution Is To Summon The Courage To Honor Your Own Judgment, Frightening Though That May Be In The Beginning.

There Is Only One Reality - The Reality Knowable To Reason. And If Man Does Not Choose To Perceive It, There Is Nothing Else For Him To Perceive; If It Is Not Of This World That He Is Conscious, Then He Is Not Conscious At All

To Live Consciously Means To Seek To Be Aware Of Everything That Bears On Our Actions, Purposes, Values, And Goals—to The Best Of Our Ability, Whatever That Ability May Be—and To Behave In Accordance With That Which We See And Know.

It Is Painful To Face The Self We Know We Have Never Had The Integrity To Honor And Assert.