1. If life has any meaning, it is this: that each event of life is designed to bring wisdom. The wise person is able to see through the events of life to their essence, and in that, find their purpose.
2. If it isn't working, doing it repeatedly isn't going to work either. If you're hammering on some issue and no one else is interested, maybe you need to let it go. If you're ignoring something and hoping it will go away, and it isn't, maybe you have to deal with it. If you find yourself saying, "That's the way it always goes," maybe you need to try another approach.
3. We have the opportunity, in dialog, to examine and re-examine the stories of our life. We can listen to what we tell ourselves, how we describe our potential, and we can begin to understand that, far from seeing our lives objectively, we see them "subjectively," and find ourselves living self-fulfilling prophecies that are limiting and limited in the extreme.
4. I must (horrors!) take complete responsibility for my choices, decisions and directions. Just as there is no one to compare myself to, there is no one to blame for any choice I have ever made. I am where I am and I know what I know based solely upon what I have chosen to learn, to absorb, to assimilate and to find within myself.
5. For each of us, the path to self-consciousness