Every age, every generation has its built in assumptions, that the world is flat, that the world is round etc. There are hundreds of hidden assumptions, things we take for granted, that may or may not be true. Of-course in the vast majority of cases historically, these things aren__ true. So presumably, if history is any guide, much about what we take for granted about the world simply isn__ true. But we__e locked into these precepts without even knowing it. That__ a paradigm.

Enjoy writers and entertainers but don't substitute their synthesis of truth and reality for your own. Seek your own counsel as much as you can. Dependence on any one or anything else will eventually result in disappointment and this may be, as it always was.

My friend Richard Carrion, the CEO of Puerto Rico__ top bank, once shared a line with me that I__l never forget: __obin, nothing fails like success._ Powerful thought. Your business is most vulnerable when it__ most successful. Success actually breeds complacency, inefficiency and _ worst of all _ arrogance. Whenever I share this point with a roomful of CEOs, every one of them nods their head at this one. Please let me give you a real-world example from my own life.

Whatever begins will end, in time.

There is no God besides the Self. One who knows the Self, knows God.

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't.