To me, to be innocent is all that is to be achieved. Be innocent, and the divine is always blissfully flowing toward you. Innocence is the capacity to receive, to be part of the divine. Be innocent, and the guest is there. Become the host. This...
But we should, as Panaetius also has somewhere remarked, make use of the precept of Anaxagoras, and just as he, at the death of his son, said, "I knew that I had begotten a mortal"; so on each occasion we should remark with reference to...
One day in the early 1900s, a prominent American executive named Claude C. Hopkins was approached by an old friend with a new business idea. The friend had discovered an amazing product, he explained, that he was convinced would be a hit. It was a toothpaste, a minty, frothy...
Consider the story of Tim and Tom. When it was time to wake up, Tim hit the snooze button twice, then realized he’d be late for his nine o’clock appointment. He jumped out of bed in a panic, only to realize that it was raining so...
Dr. Milton H. Erickson, a pioneer in strategic psychotherapy, would often educate his patients powerfully but indirectly by creating a kind of mirror effect. Constructing an analogy to make patients see the truth on their own, he would bypass their resistance to change. When Dr. Erickson treated married couples...
Before we speak of getting along with others, first we must get along with ourselves. It seems to me that all outer conflicts between people are manifestations of inner ones within people. If you suffer from an unresolved inner conflict, then you aren't getting along...
From such an intellect down to that which approaches imbecility the gradations are innumerable. Now according to these gradations, the mental horizon of each of us primarily proves to be very different. It varies from the mere apprehension of the present, which even the animal...
If we did not, in the first place, recognize and understand the clear-cut distinction between a stone and a mouse, we would never find ourselves puzzled by whether something difficult to classify was a living or a nonliving thing. Similarly, if we did not recognize the clear-cut distinction...
On April 14, 1970, fifty-five hours and fifty-four minutes into the mission, at 03:08 universal time, a damaged electrical cable caused an explosion in one of the oxygen tanks, which led James Lovell to send back to Earth the famous, al- beit frequently misquoted, message “Houston, we’ve had...
W HAT IS THE BEST WAY TO WRITE YOUR LIFE story? There is only one way, and that way is with love. Love is the material I use towrite my story because love comes directly from my integrity, from what I really am. I love...
