Quote of the Day Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | by clinical director

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

Dr. Seuss (writer and cartoonist, born on this day, 1904)

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Quote of the Day Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 | by clinical director

If “self-realization” today is associated with life-long narrow ego gratification, isn’t it inaccurate to use this term for self-realization in the widely different sense of Gandhi or less religiously loaded, as a term for the widening and deepening of the self so it embraces all life forms? Perhaps it is. But I think the very popularity of the term makes people listen for a moment and feel safe. In that moment the notion of a greater Self can be introduced, contending that if people equate self-realization with narrow ego fulfillment, they seriously underestimate themselves. We are much greater, deeper, more generous and capable of dignity and joy than we think! A wealth of non-competitive joys is open to us!

Arne Naess (Norwegian philosopher and ecologist, born on this day, 1912)

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