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If you tell a boy who has a generous dose of this kind of motivation to sit down, he'll stand up. Tell him to stand up he'll sit down. But he needs to know, and he needs you to know, that he is in charge of whether he stands or sits. He doesn't want you top tell him what to do. ...what distinguishes these boys from other kids is that the will to power takes precedence over other drives and perspectives.

Nietzsche's Will To Power-individuals want to be in charge of their environment.

Young men are wrestling with drives mothers don't understand. Fathers may understand, but garnets are sometimes contemptuos of the egocentricity and unreality that characterizes teens inner life.

First factor is changes in school. Second factor is video games.

Boys are often sent the message they are not welcome at school. They must deny their true self and pretend to be someone else.

Kenntnis and wissenschaft, or experiential learning and observational learning. Both are good, but traditional schooLing tends to leave out the experiential side, ie. actually touching a frog when learning about its life cycle.

Oversentimentality, over softness...and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and this people." I'd like to see what the...is leaving out especially considering it came from an obviously biased book attempting to reprimand George Bush.

"...1905 Chinese boy-cotts against America sparked a furious nationalism that would eventually lead to revolution and then the cutting of ties...in 1949." What? That's a bold statement to make and then just move past. 44 years later is a long time to assume one event caused this. This is sounding like a bunch of baloney.

I'm interested in the historical accounts this book claims, bit I'm already worried that it will be tainted by the authors assumptions based on circumstantial evidence. He's already concluded that diplomatic relations in 1905 have caused unrest in Zamboanga 100 years later. That's a big leap.

Holding into pain is usually a result of our own pride.

Prayer stimulates, strengthens and enlarges the anterior cingulate, where the balance between thought and feeling is sustained. This in turn lessens the stimulation up in the system, which is related to depression and where emotions like anger are processed. this enables empathy and compassion to override the more destructive, les rational reactions of the limbic system.

CORRECTION: self love, used with wisdom and power, allows change to come much easier then when we hate ourselves and constantly judge and criticize ourselves.

We are not here to change the people around us, but to change the natural man within us.

Lies we tell ourselves: I am living myself by defending myself when I have been wrongly accused. The truth is when we feel the need to defend ourselves the way to get out of the conflict is not to defend ourselves against others, but to look at ourselves and why this fear came up.

I'm Christ old is to love our enemies do good to those who despitefully use us, it was not for the other person, it was for us.

Love and affection are the greatest teachers.

when we truly love someone or desire is to serve them, this mortal existence it is impossible to be the sole provider for someone else's needs and wants...Happiness does not come from having someone else provide all things for us. True joy comes from within.

I have learned to love myself in spite of my weaknesses, and therefore learned to love others better in spite of their weaknesses

when we expect something to happen a certain way what we are really looking for is the good feelings that we believe will come to us and our loved ones if things happen the way we expect them to.

One of the greatest sources of unhappiness is unfulfilled expectations, or desiring that which we do not have.

Focus on learning to become more filled with love and faith rather than on doing works. the works will come naturally with the love and faith.

As long as we are striving and not giving up, we are successful.

A good woman knows that she does not have enough time, energy, or opportunity to take care of all the people or do all of the worthy things her heart yearns to do. Life is not calm for most women...with personal revelation, she can prioritize correctly and navigate this life confidently.

Understanding what formed our subconscious mind is not a game of blame. We can't change if we become a victim.

While the conscious mind is creative, the subconscious mind keeps playing previously recorded programs.

Mothers intuition is more than a myth. They intuitively know what those close to them are thinking because their brains circuitry teaches them to know.

Let it go...

"Depression is not a spiritual illness, but a physical illness." Depression and anxiety are created and healed by constant repetition of patterns of thought and feeling.

This is insightful. Kind of like Super Nanny in that it teaches parents what they are doing wrong and ideas to help.