Now That I Know That I Am

Forgive And Be Happy. That Is The Ancient Secret?the Only Wisdom Ever To Be Attained.

It's Not That We Fear The Place Of Darkness, But That We Don't Think We Are Worth The Effort To Find The Place Of Light.

For Communication To Have Meaning It Must Have A Life. It Must Transcend "you And Me" And Become "us." If I Truly Communicate, I See In You A Life That Is Not Me And Partake Of It. And You See And Partake Of Me. In A Small Way We Then Grow Out Of Our Old Selves And Become Something New. To Have This Kind Of Sharing I Cannot Enter Into A Conversation Clutching Myself. I Must Enter Into It With Loose Boundaries. I Must Give Myself To The Relationship, And Be Willing To Be What Grows Out Of It.

We Feel Understood By People Who Like Us; Misunderstood By People Who Don't -- And Those Feelings Are Probably Realistic.

To Live For Results Would Be To Sentence Myself To Continuous Frustration. My Only Sure Reward Is In My Actions And Not From Them.