Being & Caring: Chapter 2

ENJOYING LIFE: FROM JUDGMENT TO APPRECIATION

“We all have the capacity to enjoy life. We can find ways to enjoy what we do.

What else have we got to do that’s more important than learning how to be good to ourselves – and to those around us? How fully we enjoy our lives is dependent on our self-esteem: how we feel about ourselves and perceive our value to others.

As I pass judgment, I separate myself from others.

Here and now, I’m a perfect me, and you’re a perfect you. No one in the world can be as perfect as You as You are.”

Listen to the entire chapter as read by The Happy President from the book Being & Caring: A Psychology for Living by Victor Daniels and Laurence J. Horowitz below.

Being & Caring: Chapter 1

PERSONAL EVOLUTION

“Each of us becomes more of who we can be in part by being fully who we are now.

Finding ways to enjoy and appreciate ourselves, those around us, and our interactions with the circumstances of our lives is part of what might be called personal wisdom – something as unique as your fingerprints, signature, or way of laughing.

When I’ve learned to stand on my own feet, I’m ready to move toward you and with you.

I need to find a way to feel all right about what I do.”

 

Listen to the entire chapter as read by The Happy President from the book “Being & Caring: A Psychology for Living” by Victor Daniels and Laurence J. Horowitz below.