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When We Give Up Our Images Of Self-importance And Our Ideas Of What Should Be, We Can Help Things Become What They Need To Be.

The Play-it-safe Pessimists Of The World Never Accomplish Much Of Anything, Because They Don't Look Clearly And Objectively At Situations, They Don't Recognize Or Believe In Their Own Abilities To Overcome Even The Smallest Amount Of Risk.

Whether Many People Realize It Yet Or Not, Man, The Inferior Animal, Has By Now Proved Himself Incapable Of Keeping His Own Species - And Others - Alive For Very Much Longer. So The Earth Has Begun Its Own Plan To Set Things Right.

Unfortunately Complaining Is One Thing Eeyores Are Not Afraid To Do. They Grudgingly Carry Their Thimbles To The Fountain Of Life, Then Mumble And Grumble That They Weren't Given Enough.

Inner Nature, When Relied On, Cannot Be Fooled. But Many People Do Not Look At It Or Listen To It, And Consequently Do Not Understand Themselves Very Much. Having Little Understanding Of Themselves, They Have Little Respect For Themselves, And Are Therefore Easily Influenced By Others.