Let your light shine
Robert White writes:
One of the most powerful pieces of writing that I’ve ever seen is from Marianne Williamson’s book A Return to Love.
It was quoted by Nobel Prize–winner Nelson Mandela in his inaugural address, and perhaps you’ve heard it before.
I used a sentence from it when talking earlier about risking.
I keep the [...]
Steve Pavlina on personal development, personal growth book, self actualization, gifted and talented book
That comes from the subtitle of Steve Pavlina’s book Personal Development for Smart People.
One of the most influential psychologists who defined the human potential movement, Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) noted, “Self-actualization means using one’s intelligence.
“It does not mean doing some far-out thing necessarily, [...]
We live in stressful times
What with all the political rhetoric and economic disasters, there is plenty to trigger anxiety, on multiple levels. But we don’t have to live being driven by the alarm emotions of our primitive lizard brain.
In her article Exceptional Times Call for Exceptional Pleasures (on the Positive Psychology News Daily site), Denise [...]
Bad to the bone
Psychiatrist Michael Lewis, author of the book Shame: The Exposed Self, considers shame to be so powerful because it’s about the perception of having a “defective self.. rotten and no good.”
But, he notes, “We don’t want to live in a world in which there is no shame or guilt. We want just [...]
Being seduced by the comfort of routine and the known is one of the ways we limit ourselves and inhibit social change.
Conservative thinking on both a personal and political level may feel safe, but can nurture stagnation. Doing more about our inertia, we can grow more effectively toward who we want to be, and evolve [...]
Brigid O’Shaughnessy [Mary Astor]: Help me.
Sam Spade [Humphrey Bogart]: You won’t need much of anybody’s help. You’re good. Chiefly your eyes, I think, and that throb you get in your voice when you say things like ‘Be generous, Mr. Spade.’
Brigid O’Shaughnessy: I deserve that. But the lie was in the way I said it, not [...]
