I know it's a mistake looking to someone else for a sense of myself, but how can I keep from giving myself away? I have a lot of self-doubt and general lack of confidence. Can you shed some light on this?...

Waiting on others to approve a change you know you must make in your own life -- an action you must take that will likely lessen your dependency upon them, and perhaps drive them to make changes in their habitual choices -- is like hoping that a snow man looks forward to a spring thaw.

#1: The ambitious "self" never stops to consider how the source of its motives may be secretly self-centered, while it is quick to judge others for what it sees as being their self-absorbed actions.

By and large, everything we condemn in others is just a way of hiding something similar within ourselves.

There is a hidden part of you that knows, without thinking about it, how to always be perfectly relaxed, carefree, and in command. This higher intellectual and emotional intelligence is to your present thoughts and feelings as is the mighty oak to its own spreading branches. Once you come into contact with its perfect strength and power, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. Great mas...

There is a hidden part of you that knows, without thinking about it, how to always be perfectly relaxed, carefree, and in command. This higher intellectual and emotional intelligence is to your present thoughts and feelings as is the mighty oak to its own spreading branches. Once you come into contact with its perfect strength and power, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. Great mas...

The only thing that can happen to you when you're in the wrong place is a wrong thing. But even when you find yourself in a "wrong place" inwardly, you don't have to remain there.

The only thing that can happen to you when you're in the wrong place is a wrong thing. But even when you find yourself in a "wrong place" inwardly, you don't have to remain there. The way to turn any painful interior location into an act of self-liberation is by daring to exchange that false sense of self you've found there for the awareness of your momentary mistaken identity. Following are...

Whenever the right two stones are struck together, a spark will appear; there is a flash of light. This same principle holds true whenever we "collide" with life. In that instant parts of us that we've never seen before are illuminated. For instance, who hasn't crashed into that dreaded moment when we realize that someone we love has had a change of heart toward us?

It's a little-known secret that our experience of life in any given moment is a direct reflection of what we actually value in that same moment.

Any time we pretend to be something we're not, we do so out of fear that without that "persona" to protect us -- to make that impression we want -- we won't get what we want. This whole way of thinking is secret self-sabotage. It sinks us in our personal and business relationships as surely as a torpedo wrecks the ship it strikes. Learning how to stop this self-sinking is our focus here. The...

The reporter asked the gentleman, whose lecture he had just observed, "Why sir, do you go to the trouble you do? Why persist with making these presentations when almost no one comes to see them? As far as I could tell, there were only seven people in the class room this evening, and I've learned this is almost always the case wherever you go!" After a moment, the gentleman responded (for thos...