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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict…
So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them…
The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.
The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.
We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.
Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given;…
Transformation is a journey without a final destination.
If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built…
Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or…
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. — Marilyn Ferguson
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