"It is only out of the understanding of one's selfness that one person can be freely close to another without threat, obligation, need or fear." Julius Seeman

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly & courageously. This is how character is built. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt"

"The final quality of love is freedom. The moment coercion or control or conflict enters, love dies"

De Mello

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. --Abraham Maslow

"What does it mean to love? It means to be sensitive to life, to things, to persons, to feel for everything and everyone to the exclusion of nothing and no one." De Mello

Help4Self.net, October 2000.

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