The First Step Toward Change Is Awareness.

If You Overcome Your Fear To Ask Someone For A Date, A Raise, Or Help With A Project, That Is An Act Of Self-assertiveness. You Are Moving Out Into Life Rather Than Contracting And Withdrawing.

It Is Very Difficult To Accept In Others Emotions You Cannot Accept In Yourself.

Self-acceptance Is My Refusal To Be In An Adversarial Relationship To Myself.

To Love Is To See Myself In You And To Wish To Celebrate Myself With You. What I Love Is The Embodiment Of My Values In Another Person. Love Is An Act Of Self-assertion, Self-expression And A Celebration Of Being Alive.

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!