"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when
there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine De Saint Exupery

"If you want to build a ship don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely." -- Karen Kaiser Clark

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility" -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

What I am presenting is all against a background of a Universal human experience.

We are all born little, and of a specific man and woman.

Between birth and today, everyone has accumlated vast experience which we know as the past.

In a way, all things you have done up to the present, if you are still around, have worked.

The question again is, what is the price and could the price be lower...

--Virginia Satir

"The daily pressures to act, to do, to decide, make it difficult to stop and think, to consider, and to examine your life goals, directions and priorities - to find the best choices you have for managing your own world."  --Roy Menninger

"You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours.  When you truly posses all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality."  --Flonda Scott Maxwell

Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki says "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few."

"If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.  The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease."  -- Seng-ts'an, A Chinese Zen master

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -- Maianne Williamson

"The true measure of your journey through the adult years is not your age....The true measure of your life is where you are in relation to becoming a complete person."

--F.M. Hudson and P.D. McLean