Six Mistakes of Man

• The illusion that personal gain is made up of crushing others
• The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected
• Insisting that a thing is not possible because we cannot accomplish it
• Refusing to set aside trivial preferences
• Neglecting development and refinement of the mind and not acquiring the habit of reading and study
• Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

Cireco (Roman orator)

Love

"Giving love with no expectation is the cornerstone of your relationships when you are on purpose.   Practice this giving of love without conditions and you will find yourself feeling full rather than empty and blissful rather than miserable."   Wayne Dyer

Contradiction

"If we maintain our misery at the surface level, we hold off the initially threatening but ultimately redemptive and healing transfiguration that comes through engaging our contradictions."   John O' Donahue

Change

"It is startling that we desperately hold on to what makes us miserable.   Our own woundedness becomes a source of perverse pleasure and fixes our identity.   We do not want to be cured, for that would mean moving into the unknown.  It seems we are destructively addicted to the negative."   John O' Donahue

Misery

"If you sell your soul, you often buy a life of misery."   John O'Donahue

Change

"It is startling that we so desperately hold on to what makes us miserable.   We do not want to be cured, for that would mean moving into the unknown.   If we maintain our misery at the surface level, we hold off the initially threatening but ultimately redemptive and healing transfiguration that comes through engaging our inner contradiction."  John O' Donahue