John Powell: "Fully Human Fully Alive"

* Our participation in the happiness of a full and human life is determined by our personal perception of reality.

* What you see is what you get.

* Two men looked out from prison bars. One saw mud, one saw stars.

* There can be no real change, no real growth in any of us until and unless our basic perception
of reality, our vision, is change.

* To be fully alive means to be open to the whole human experience.

* Fully alive people are always thoughtful and reflective.

* Fully alive people are glad to be alive and to be who they are.

* Fully alive people experience failure as well as success.

* Five essential steps into the fullness of life are these: (1) to accept oneself (2) to be oneself
(3) to forget oneself in loving (4) to believe (5) to belong.

* Only people who have joyfully accepted themselves can take all the risks and responsibilities
of being themselves.

* The size of a person’s world is the size of his or her heart.

* There is no learning to live without learning to love.

* Our perceptions cause our emotions and affect our behavior.

* You need to know I love you whether you do your best or not so that you will have the strength
to do your best.

* In every change there is a death and a rebirth.

* No one should be deprived of joy in one’s life and work.

* We must do the truth as well as believe it.

* There should be quiet times in every life for such reflection, reevaluation, and reinterpretation.

* People are not emotionally and psychologically disturbed by events or things but by the views
they take of those events or things.

* We must be willing to admit a lesser or greater credibility gap between who we really are and
who we pretend to be.

* More rationally oriented people want to do well for their own sakes and satisfaction, not in
order to be better than others.

* They stay on top of the situation instead of letting situation bury them.

* The rational person knows that happiness is not determined by outside forces and events….
Happiness comes from within.

* As long as you think you can’t, you can’t.

* Let life question you.