"And the loving person is also one
who see the continual wonder and
joy of being alive."
L. Buscaglia

"Every day you should
be seeing the world
in a new personal way."
L. Buscaglia

"But a man is always capable of growth and change,
and if you don't believe this,
you are in the process of dying."
L. Buscaglia

"The loving person has
no need to be perfect,
only human."
L. Buscaglia

"We are constantly moving away from
ourselves and others."

"We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion.
The easiest thing is the world to be is what you are. What you feel.
The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be..."

"Are you really you, or are you what people have told you you are?"
L. Buscaglia

"Are you really you, or are you what people have told you you are?"
L. Buscaglia

Is it possible to learn a lesson so well that you cannot remember ever learning it?

Can a skill become so ingrained that its origin is forgotten?
How about walking and talking? How about reading and writing?
And what about thinking? That’s right thinking.
That thing that you are doing right now: How about thinking?

Can you remember where you learned to think?
Can you remember who taught you to think?
Do you remember what they taught you to think?
Is what you think what you choose to think or is it what someone else taught you to think?
Can you rethink what you think and teach yourself not to think as you were taught to think,
but instead think as an independent thinker?

Can you remember when you first thought of yourself as an independent thinker?
Who was it that taught you to think of yourself as an independent thinker and then asked you to think independent thoughts?
Did he or she think of himself or herself as an independent thinker?
And who was it that taught him or her how to think as an independent thinker?
How did he or she teach you to be an independent thinker without you thinking as he or she does?

Are you an independent thinker who only thinks like other independent thinkers or are you truly an independent thinker who thinks that you think just like everybody else?

Is it possible to learn a lesson so well that you cannot remember ever learning it?

Originally written - February 26, 1996

"Assemble with those you love to rekindle joy."
R. Fulghum

Originally written - December 18, 1993

"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends,
to which, if persevered in, they must lead.
But if the courses be departed from,
the ends will change."
C. Dickens

The ghost of your past can be very frightening to face,
but if this ghost has helped to elevate you to a more
advanced spirit, then perhaps it is not such a frightening
ghost after all.
M. Alibrando

"No one has ever found a limit to human potential."
L. Buscaglia

"If you feel something, let people know that you feel it."
L. Buscaglia

"The loving individual is a person who is spontaneous."
L. Buscaglia

"It isn't enough to live and learn for today.
We have to dream about what the world
is going to be like in fifty years and
educate for a hundred years hence,
and dream of a world a thousand
years hence.
L. Buscaglia

"This loving person is
a person who abhors waste -
waste of time,
waste of human potential."
L. Buscaglia

"There is no greater responsibility
in the world than being a human being..."
L. Buscaglia

"The loving person must
be one who recognizes responsibility."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"...what did you learn today?"
L. Buscaglia

"There is no word vast enough
to begin to describe even
the simplest of man."
L. Buscaglia

"Lables are a distancing phenomena -
stop using them."
L. Buscaglia

"A loving person rids himself of labels."
L. Buscaglia

"Labels are a distancing phenomena.
They push us away from each other."
L. Buscaglia

"We created time,
and now we have
become slaves to it."
L. Buscaglia

"Love is certainly genetically inscribed,
but it needs to be evoked, studied,
taught and practiced if it's too have
any real meaning."
L. Buscaglia

"You are the best you.
You will always be
the second best anyone else."
L. Buscaglia

"In the end,
you only have you."
L. Buscaglia

"Show me your differences
so that maybe I can
learn from them."
L. Buscaglia

Suspend judgement.
Forget perfection.
Get the words out.
Keep them coming.
Get it down.
Don't stop.
Write it down.
Keep going.
Just write.
Write.
M. Alibrando's poem using N. Kelton's words.
Her words, my order.

"Education should be the process of
helping everyone to discover his uniqueness,
to teach him how to develop that uniqueness,
and then show him how to share it because that's
the only reason for having anything."
L. Buscaglia

"...write because
you want to write."
N. Kelton

"Your revelations are what matter."
N. Kelton

"...good writing takes courage,
a willingness to let people see
your insides, discipline and
a fierce determination."
N. Kelton

"Everything has a price.
Nothing worthwhile is free."
N. Kelton

"It is human nature to want
a return for our fee."
Me misquoting N. Kelton

"First of all, the loving individual
has to care about himself."
L. Buscaglia

"We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness."
Dr. A. Schweitzer

"...don't teach love..."
"...simply facilitate growth in love."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"You can only give away what you have."
L. Buscaglia

"It's a matter of sharing.
What ever I have
I can share it with you."
L. Buscaglia talking about love.