The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
There is nothing that you cannot be, do, or have.
Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step.
Think about where you're going and never mind where you've been. Don't spend any more time justifying any of that stuff.
When you feel gratitude, you are the closest to the natural state you were born to live in.
So the big question is, "Well, do I just dump all those unwanted things and try to start fresh?" And we say, no. You just set the Tone, where you are, by looking for things to appreciate. And by setting your Tone in a very clear deliberate way, anything that doesn't match it gravitates out of your experience, and anything that does match it gravitates into your experience. It is so much simpler than most of you are allowing yourself to believe.
That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation-with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering the receiving of it-that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best.
I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection
A sharp difference should exist between general education and specialized knowledge. As particularly today the latter threatens more and more to sink into the service of pure Mammon, general education, at least in its more ideal attitude, must be retained as a counterweight.
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.