Unawareness Causes Grief

Never sacrifice your integrity in order to get something from him or her." ~ Vernon Howard

"Above all, cherish no opinions."

"In order to be able to participate in a dialogic process, we must be willing to abandon, or put aside, opinions. What are opinions? They are cherished ideas personalized ideas. As long as we cherish opinions we cannot participate in a dialogic process because we have an investment in affirming our opinions... the wise man has no opinions whatsoever about anything ... a wise man has a thirst for understanding. He does not claim personal knowledge. At the drop of a hat he is ready to alter his thoughts." ~ Thomas Hora, M.D.

Becoming Unstoppable

"To see that the places where we feel stuck in life are really secret passageways -- provided for us to gain insight into our own greater potential -- is to no longer perceive these hurdles as a hindrance to success in life. In fact, once we learn to welcome whatever challenges us, we stand at the threshold of a new order of our own being where never again will we feel ourselves the victim of anything!" ~ Guy Finley

Perception

Man's life begins only with the appearance of rational consciousness...

But if men who do not see life would only approach nearer to the phantoms which alarm them, and would examine them, they would perceive that for them also they are only phantoms and not realities. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Progress

The test of progress is not how much intellectual knowledge you have added, but how many mental illusions you have discarded. There are those who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom ~ Democritus

"Consciousness...

...is a unique faculty of man enabling him to be aware of himself in a transcendent manner. This is the divine element in us. To fully appreciate it is very important because until we have learned to appreciate the divine in us, we are undeveloped and we live below the level of our potentialities." ~ Thomas Hora, M.D.

Face Fearful Feelings

There is really no such thing as a shaky situation, so any time you start to trimble, don't look around you for the fault: Look inward. It's the inner ground you're standing on that isn't solid. Any weakness faced by looking in this new direction becomes the foundation of a new strength. Face those fearful feelings. Fearlessness follows. ~ Guy Finley