Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.
Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.
Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.
. . . The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed.
Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all.
The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs.
Fight only after creating conditions for victory.
Things can change if the military can do a paradigm shift and gets out of the shame and coverup cycle and be a leader in our culture. In the 50s, 60s and 70s there were huge race problems in the military even more severe than the culture at large. The military saw it was detrimental and it changed and became a model to society at large.
Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.
If heaven is the reason and dieing is the door, than why aren't we all leaving what's the drama for?
In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace.