Personal Renewal
We build our own prisons and serve as our own jail keepers, but I’ve concluded that our parents and the society at large have a hand in building our prisons. They create roles for us – and self images – that hold us captive for a long time.
The individual who is intent on self-renewal will have to deal with ghosts of the past – the memory of earlier
... See moreWe can’t write off the danger of complacency, growing rigidity, imprisonment by our own comfortable habits and opinions. Look around you. How many people whom you know well — people even younger than yourselves –are already trapped in fixed attitudes and habits. A famous French writer said “There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in t
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Practicing listening in Quarterlife is changing the focus from achieving a goal to indulging curiosity—in order to understand the path itself. It’s a practice of gathering information about one’s own specific nature. Do I like this activity? Do I like time alone in the mornings? How do I need to challenge myself to grow? Whom do I admire for their
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