Now That I Know That I Am

I Can Not 'make My Mark' For All Time - Those Concepts Are Mutually Exclusive. 'lasting Effect' Is A Self-contradictory Term. Meaning Does Not Exist In The Future And Neither Do I. Nothing Will Have Meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing Will Even Mean Tomorrow What It Did Today. Meaning Changes With The Context. My Meaningfulness Is Here. It Is Enough That I Am Of Value To Someone Today. It Is Enough That I Make A Difference Now.

Within Me Is The Potential To Commit Every Evil Act I See Being Committed By Other Men, And Unless I Feel This Potential, I Can At Any Moment Be Controlled By These Same Urges. I Am Free From These Urges Only If I Recognize When I Am Feeling Them, And While Feeling Them And Acknowledging Them To Be Me, Choose Not To Follow Them. Only In This Way Can I Begin To Regain The Disowned Parts Of Me. And Only In This Way Can I Know What It Is I Am Criticizing In Others.

The Ego, As A Collection Of Our Past Experiences, Is Continually Offering Miserable Lines Of Thought. It's As If There Were A Stream With Little Fish Swimming By, And When We Hook One Of Them There Is A Judgment. The Ego Is Constantly Judging Everybody And Everything. It Has Its Constant Little Chit Chat About Things That Can Happen In The Future, Things About The Past, Too, And These Are The Little Fish That Swim By. And What We Learn To Do-this Is Why It Takes Work-is To Not Reach Out And Grab A Fish.

When I Have Listened To My Mistakes, I Have Grown.

You Are Only Young Once, But You Can Stay Immature Indefinitely. You Are Only Young Once, Then You Need Another Reason To Act Foolish. You Are The Only Authority On What Is Best For You.