PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want.

We want to ask questions and not just make assertions.

In feelings we really know that something is "there," and solidly so. But what it is and why it is remains obscure—though hauntingly present.

We often don't know our own stories because we doubt their existence, dismiss their importance, or we're distracted.

"You don't love somebody for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car; but because they sing a song only you can hear."

What you are doing is exploring. You are undertaking the first experience, not of the place, but of yourself in that place... nobody can discover the world for anybody else. It is only after we have discovered it for ourselves that it becomes a common ground and a common bond, and we cease to be alone.

And I sat there trying to think, and failing, thinking only that whatever I would say was probably going to be a surprise to me.

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.

He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.

But nobody else understands about the fire. If someone threw you a rope when you were drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take you'll die - you would, wouldn't you?

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

I learned from my mother that there is a greatness in all of us, and that all of us are delivered to this world with a mission. I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.