The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving ….

An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of refe….

As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome prob….

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember..

A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light..

Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of….

God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totall….

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once….

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity..

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional..

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action..

The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive..

Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably p….

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear..

Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, ….

A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged..

What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know….

Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this is so. . . . They will come to kn….

Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude ….

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time..

While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a ….