A reviving personality must be nourished with another kind of new communication—communication with other people. We have become too enamored of ourselves. An example is the inability of people to form commitments, which has resulted in half the urban population in developed countries spending their lives alone, and in the dissolution of such a high proportion of marriages. Another is the increasing disillusionment that people report, in survey after survey, with most of the institutions that we had previously trusted, and with the individuals who lead them.  #RyanPhillippe 1 of 9

Besides opening yourself to the riches of art and knowledge, you must also open yourself to new friendships, particularly to those which can reinforce your newly expanded interests. How long has it been since you noticed yourself warming to someone new, how long since you made even the mildest effort to bring a new person into your life and affections? Thank you. It is you that open the window to my heart. It is you who makes me see the vast World, celestial body beyond the Galaxy, tomorrow, and future, yesterday, and all things millions of billions of years ago.  #RyanPhillippe 2 of 9

Do not underestimate the difficulty of this process. The true revolution of our times is the disappearance for friendship. Most of us are far out of the habit of searching for friends and retaining them that we feel it awkward and painful to begin. However, there is nothing so satisfying as success in this regard, and noting so basic to the problem of subduing the Type A’s free-floating hostility. It appears that the individuals who are supported by love and secure family and community bonds can cope much better with stressful psychological situations than individuals who are deprived of such support.  #RyanPhillippe  3 of 9

More and more, we seem to ignore things we do not like and pretend they do not happen in order to avoid confronting bad news, and people are withdrawing into gated communities protected by armed response. However, a good personal life is impossible while staying aloof of a corrupt society. It would be much easier if we were responsible only for ourselves. Unfortunately, things do not work that way. An active responsibility for the rest of humankind, and for the World of which we are a part, is a necessary ingredient of a good life.  #RyanPhillippe 4 of 9

Act always as if the future of the Universe depends on what you do, and realize you can make a difference. I will not attempt to win your delight and will not be concerned about whether I will gain your love. Since I am now totally attached to you, I should tell you the truth. How many times I want to see your happy smile. How many times I have a good time with your whispering face to face. I have been laughing with you, full of tender feelings; I have gained your elation which only love gives you.  I like to gaze at you in silence, and to be gazed at the same; I wish to be deeply loved by you and love you as deeply.  #RyanPhillippe 5 of 9

Words can be used to defend rather than connect, and talking can be a barrier to intimacy. Stay in touch with yourself and with me as we are in quiet contact. While this contact accents silence, it does not exclude words, since being holds them both. Verbal silence usually does not signify a corresponding inner silence, but it does allow the mind to relax so that we may experience sincerity, beauty, and love. I will embroider with emotional stitches one pattern after another of happiness to be embedded in you and my hearts. I love you faithfully and sincerely. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 9

Conversely, the part of an individual that wants to cling to negative emotions is the smallness. It is a portion of one that is mean, petty, selfish, competitive, cheap, conniving, mistrusting, vindictive, judgmental, diminished, weak, guilty, ashamed, and vain. It has little energy; it is depleting, demeaning, and leads to the lowering of self-respect. It is the small part of people that accounts for their self-hatred, unending guilty, and seeking for punishment, sickness, and disease. Is that the part with which we want to identify? Is that the part we want to energize? Is that the way we want to see ourselves? Because if that is the way we see ourselves, that is the way others will see us.  #RyanPhillippe 7 of 9

Let my blessing, like your favorite song, hover over your ears and remain in your heart. Picture yourself as being generous, forgiving, loving, and experiencing your inner greatness. We recognize that part of our nature has always been willing and wanting to forgive, but we did not dare chance it. We thought we might appear foolish. We thought we were punishing the other person by holding the resentment, but we have actually been suppressing love. We usually stumble by the stones that exist in our hearts, but always stride over the stones that are in our way and creating a real obstruction.  #RyanPhillippe 8 of 9

As we keep surrendering our resistance to love, we will notice that within ourselves there is something that wants to express itself through our sharing and giving, letting the past go and letting go of negativity. There is a desire to make a friendly gesture; we want to heal the separation, to repair the wound, to make good the wrong, to express gratitude, and to take a chance on being that fool. Greatness is the courage to overcome obstacles. It is the willingness to move to a higher level of love. Stars cannot only give us direction at night, but also report to us the coming of dawn.  #RyanPhillippe 9 of 9