"Only you can be the final judge
in determining what is right for you."
L. Buscaglia

"There is a you lying dormant.
A potential within you to be realized.
Perhaps the only peace and joy in life lies in
the pursuit and development of this potential."
L. Buscaglia

"We think much less than what we know,
We know much less than what we love,
We love much less than what there is,
and to this precise extent
we are much less then what we are."
R.D. Laing

"Each man is unique.
Nature abhors sameness."
L. Buscaglia

"The wise man can teach
all he knows and when he's through
he'll still know all that he has taught.
But first he must have the knowledge."
L. Buscaglia

"To love others
you must love yourself."
L. Buscaglia

"...you can only give to others
what you have yourself."
L. Buscaglia

"...a great deterrent to love is found in anyone who fears change..."
L. Buscaglia

"Deterrents to love are man-made.
Love will not be deterred."

"Love flows like a river:
always itself, yet ever changing,
recognising no obstacle."
L. Buscaglia

"There is only one thing of which you can be certain of and that is change."

"...growing, learning, experiencing is change."

"Change is inevitable."

"To deny change, is to deny the only single reality."

"...only when he goes with the changing river, is a man truly free."
L. Buscaglia

"One must never be satisfied with his ability to love.
No matter where he is, it is always just the beginning."
L. Buscaglia

"Man's ability to learn will always be greater than
that of 'the old dog' and to compare them is to
degrade the very strenght that keeps
a dog a dog but make a man human.
L. Buscaglia

"With practice you can learn to identify and
understand the forces which envelop your life.
When you comprehend them,
you can modify and maneuver them as you wish. 
Or leave them as they are,
depending on how beautiful they are to you."
J. Powell

"The feeling that you are O.K. does not mean that
you have risen above all of your faults. 
It simply means that you refuse to be limited by them."
J. Powell

Once you have committed yourself the big question is;
Are you going to be faithful because you want to
or because you have to? 
M. Alibrando

As you read each abstract verse, please do not think to yourself,
"I wonder what the author meant by these words?"
People often think of poets and artist as having ulterior motives. 
But this author assures his readers that these words written on these pages
have no more of an ulterior motive than the creator has when creating a butterfly or a rose.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - June 7, 1993

"The world needs our love now more than it has ever needed it,
so please either lead, follow or get out of the way.
L. Buscaglia

"The world we have created is a product of our own thinking;
It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
A. Einstein

Originally written - November 27, 1993

The heart of intra-personal confusion lies between
the elements of communications with the
parent-self and the child-self.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - December 5, 1993

It is not failure that causes depression,
but rather failure filtered through the belief that
one should be thoroughly competent, brilliant,
and achieving in all possible respects.
Unknown

Originally written - December 30, 1993

Nature may have given you a "Model T," but it's up to you to evolve yourself into a "sports car..."
... or even a "spaceship."

Break away from the gravity of your present situation and soar.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - December 31, 1993

Fear is a great motivator,
but love is a greater motivator.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - January 9, 1994

"To know
and not yet do
is to not yet know."
Unknown - Zen Wisdom

Originally written - January 21, 1994

"We work with being,
but it is the none being that we use."
G. DeRosa

Originally written - February 8, 1994

The mind/body connection is not unlike the computer/software connection. 
Without software running through a PC in the form of electric impulses,
a PC would be nothing more than an odd looking collection of
metal, glass and plastics.  Likewise, without a CPU, a monitor and a keyboard
the electrical current would only exist as a sudden spark of energy without
the ability to continue past the moment of its' creation, doomed to
die the instant it is born.
Both are necessary for a useful existence.

Originally written - February 11, 1994

We each only see what's important to us.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - April 10, 1994

"Be in the world, but not of the world."
Not a Jesus quote but a common summation.

"We are spirits in the material world."
G. Sumner

Originally written - April 30, 1994

Once your glass is full,
saying yes to more
can only be a waste.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - August 10, 1994

There is no such thing as an easy life,
no mater what ones economic status is.
It is just as easy to find a contented poor person
as it is to find a discontented wealthy person.
The difference between a contented individual
and a discontented individual is as easy to see as
the difference between the words "I have to..." and "I choose to..."

Bad occurrence are not the worst things that can happen to you.
Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to you.
M. Alibrando


"There is no disaster that can't become a blessing,
and no blessing that can't become a disaster."
R. Bach

Originally written - August 5, 1994

"You gave your life to become the person that you are right now.
Was it worth it?"
R. Bach

"It's bad enough to fail when we let go of what we believe,
but it's worse when the ideas we've been living by
turn out to be wrong. If a core idea has flaws,
you've got to stop everything in your life till you get it sorted out."
R. Bach

Originally written - August 12, 1994

Is it the process of meeting a need and solving a problem that gives life meaning,
or would one look for a problem to solve even if there were non to solve?
M. Alibrando

Originally written - September 25, 1994

" The joy is in the growing."
G. Colnaghi

Originally written - October 3, 1994

Be actively involved in creating yourself and directing your future.
M. Alibrando

We create ourselves.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - October 8, 1994

"We possess the free will to shape the social forces that influence us."
A. Adler

Originally written - October 14, 1994

For some of us, our worst fear is finding out that
we have not become who we had hoped
we would have become.
Overcome this fear and
develop your potential to its fullest.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - October 15, 1994

Finding that new perspective isn't always easy.
Sometimes just trying to find that
quite little spot to ponder our thoughts can
become a real challenge.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - July 24, 1997

"In order to change,
the man must trust that
he is capable of change."
L. Buscaglia