Values are enduring, ongoing guides to living. You cannot achieve a value; you can only manifest it by acting in accordance with it.

Acceptance is in the service of valued living.

Commitment is not about never lapsing; it is about taking responsibility even when we do lapse for the larger patterns of living we are creating.

As these opportunities arise, try to expand the space you have to speak a more complete truth.

underline every external situation or fact. I’m asking you to note reactions (circled) and external facts (underlined) because the mind sometimes mixes the two, which makes the next step harder.

Symbolic meaning gives words and mental images a reality that is virtually the same as that of physical objects and events in the external world.

professor I participated in and was moved deeply by Erhard Seminars Training (est),

ACT research we discovered that our efforts will be more effective if we learn to keep bringing our minds back to the present and our ability to choose in every moment how we will act.

Appreciate What Your Mind Is Trying to Do