Romantic Love Can Be Terrifying. We Experience

The Greatest Barrier To Achievement And Success Is Not Lack Of Talent Or Ability But Rather The Feeling That Achievement And Success, Above A Certain Level, Are Outside Our Self-concept-our Image Of Who We Are And What Is Appropriate To Us.

In A World In Which We Are Exposed To More Information, More Options, More Philosophies, More Perspectives Than Ever Before, In Which We Must Choose The Values By Which We Will Live (rather Than Unquestioningly Follow Some Tradition For No Better Reason Than That Our Own Parents Did), We Need To Be Willing To Stand On Our Own Judgment And Trust Our Own Intelligence-to Look At The World Through Our Own Eyes-to Chart Our Course And Think Through How To Achieve The Future We Want, To Commit Ourselves To Continuous Questioning And Learning-to Be, In A Word, Self-responsible.

If You Do Not Feel Deserving Of Happiness, Consciously Or Subconsciously, Or If You Have Accepted The Idea That Happiness Is Somehow Wrong Or Cannot Last, You Will Not Respond Appropriately When Happiness Comes Knocking At Your Door In The Form Of Romantic Love. No Matter How Much You May Have Waited And Cried, You Will Not Welcome Love When It Arrives-you Will Find A Way To Sabotage It. What A Challenge To Resist This Temptation! What An Opportunity For True Spiritual Growth And Transformation-to Defy Your Negative Feelings And Honor The Gift That Life Offers You!

As You Grow In Self-esteem, Your Face, Manner, Way Of Talking And Moving Will Tend Naturally To Project The Pleasure You Take In Being Alive.

Suppose You Feel You Cannot Accept Some Fact About Yourself. Then Own Your Refusal To Accept. Own The Block. Embrace It Fully. And Watch It Begin To Disappear. The Principal Is This: Begin Where You Are-accept That. Then Change And Growth Become Possible.