If We Want To Know What We're

In Trying To Express Only Those Aspects Of Ourselves That We Believe Will Guarantee Us The Acceptance Of Others, We Suppress Some Of Our Most Valuable And Interesting Features And Sentence Ourselves To A Life Of Reenacting The Same Outworn Scripts. Reclaiming The Parts Of Ourselves That We Have Relegated To The Shadow Is The Most Reliable Path To Actualizing All Of Our Human Potential. Once Befriended, Our Shadow Becomes A Divine Map That—when Properly Read And Followed—reconnects Us To The Life We Were Meant To Live And The People We Were Meant To Be.

The Present Moment Is The Pivotal Point Of Power.

Our Society Nurtures The Illusion That All The Rewards Go To The People Who Are Perfect. But Many Of Us Are Finding Out That Trying To Be Perfect Is Costly.

Our Perspectives On Situations Act Like A Lens Through Which We View The World.

We Can't Fight Darkness With Darkness. We Have To Find Compassion, And Embrace The Darkness Inside Of Us In Order To Understand It And, Ultimately, To Transcend It.