When all you want is a person's body and you don't really want their mind, heart or spirit, you have reduced a person to a thing. - Stephen Covey

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values & priorities

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.