Website owner: James Miller
Where do your values lie? Do you value those things that are
conducive to good mental health? Do you value things like
friendliness, warmth, honesty, mental balance and simplicity?
Or do you value things that are destructive to mental health?
You can be whatever you really want to be. You can be a
friendly, warm person if you really want to be one. You can be
an honest person if you really want to be one. Let your goals
be to have those qualities of character that are conducive to
good mental health.
- Make it an important goal for yourself to be a warm
person. Wish to be a kind, understanding, friendly,
loving person. Envision this sort of person in your mind
as an ideal or model. Pursue warmth. Renounce all
anger, hatred and bitterness against people or society.
Decide to like people. Renounce antisocial feelings.
You can do it if you honestly want to, if you can
generate honest enthusiasm for such a project.
- Make it your goal to be an honest person.
- Make it your goal to be a balanced person. Pursue mental
and emotional balance. Pursue mental and emotional
stability. Seek perspective, balance, good sense and
good judgment. Avoid getting too hung up in any one
thing or too bogged down in details. For perspective get
into the habit of standing back and looking at things as
a whole.
- Pursue simplicity. Love simplicity. Be suspicious of
complexity and sophistication.
Jan 1987
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