Seals - © Jerry Ting, Photographer
"On the path of evolution, we move from being a
willing
and obedient member of the
group,
to wanting to take control over our own
lives.
This is a necessary but difficult
transition."
~ John & Patrice Robson
~
Andrew Schneider says, "At this point we are afraid
of being ourselves.
We
are afraid of being unique and different.
We
are afraid of being individually powerful, and even
successful.
For all of these things stand against the old
ways that told us
that conformity was right and individualism was
wrong."
"For as long as we possibly can, we make a
compromise.
We
try to live both lives - the dependent tribal life and the
independent
personal life -
as contradictory and opposite as they
are."
"We want approval from others. We want to be accepted
and popular.
We
seek this comfort to overcome our fear and feel more secure.
So, at times when we conform, we don’t feel the fear
of living.
But we might lose the new sense of adventure,
discovery,
daring and enthusiasm for life that the questioning
and questing have brought us."
"Nature never repeats herself,
and the possibilities of
one human soul will never be found in another."
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
You can only reach your full potential by being
yourself.
Any standard that you can measure yourself by
is
an illusion created to keep you comfortable.
Risk being uncomfortable.
Risk being who you are, regardless of your fears of
nonconformance.
~ Vicky ~
