Magic Touch

“To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.”
― Stephen R. Covey, Spiritual Roots of Human Relations

“Someone inquired of a Hindu who had a great serenity and peace about him, no matter what pressures were put upon him, “How do you maintain that serenity and peace?” His answer: “I never leave my place of meditation.” Every morning he meditated for thirty minutes. Then in his mind and heart he never left it—he maintained the spirit of that place all during his public life and pressures.”
― Stephen R. Covey, Spiritual Roots of Human Relations

“President N. Eldon Tanner has said, “Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don’t want to do it.”
― Stephen R. Covey, Spiritual Roots of Human Relations

“Deathbed confession or mere ordinance work do not change man’s nature. This is the reason Satan’s plan to force everyone to be good would have failed, for there could never be a returning to the presence of the Eternal Father without a testing in the face of opposites and temptation and without the continuous choosing of the highest good over lesser goods and over evil. Any other approach to salvation ignores this process of growth and turns it all into some kind of an arbitrary and awesome mystery that, to many, is the hallmark of spirituality.”
― Stephen R. Covey, Spiritual Roots of Human Relations