“We are each of us unique.” #7

People don’t want to be understood-I mean not completely. It’s too destructive. Then they haven’t anyting left.

-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Bring Me a Unicorn

No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another’s happiness.

-Graham Greene

Some people believe they can “read you like a book.” They also think they know what’s best for another and think nothing of making decisions or plans for that person. Do you know anyone like this? Write a vignette or skit illustrating the person’s behavior. Why do you suppose he or she assumes the right to run another person’s life?

“We are each of us unique.” #8

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feeling of which one is capable oneself.

-Andree Gide

It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbor’s mind and to find out how different the scenery there was from that of his own.

-William James

Many of us persist in the belief that people are pretty much the same, that we share similar values, viewpoints, goals, and emotional needs and attachments. This belief results in many surprises-usually disapointments. What kinds of situations can this belief create? How can a person find out what another’s feelings and values are?

“But we are more than logical” #5

Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away ust below the conscious level.

-Dr. Joyce Brothers
How to Get Whatever You Want Out of Life

“Something tells me” needs only decent attention and confidence to tell us much more.

-Henry S. Haskins

Intuition allows us to take shortcuts when forming conclusions or making decisions. Everyone has intuition. Some people pay more attention to it than others and in time learn to trust in their intuitive powers.Do you consider yourself an intuitive person? Or do you always approach problems and decisions in a step-by-step, analytical way? Have you ever talked yourself out of following your inuition-only to regret it later?