Personal discovery quotes
Here are some quotes from men who have done the training:
“I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this opportunity… I’ve met people who I didn’t think existed a group of men who have compassion and love and trust in those who signed on to the course.
“Now I am the one with the power to achieve what is my destiny. I am my own person- a strong, loving, independent person who lives his life according to himself and no other.”
"It was extremely hard to go through the many processes but because I felt the men around me were there with me and not against me gave me inspiration for the future.
"Thank you."
And here are some quotes from films, literature that may give you something to think about:
"What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad."
Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid, the ones that I never wanted old girlfriends to see... well, they've started to give me a little pang of something—not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret. There's one of me in a cowboy hat, pointing a gun at the camera, trying to look like a cowboy but failing, and I can hardly bring myself to look at it now. Laura thought it was sweet (she used that word! Sweet, the opposite of sour!) and pinned it up in the kitchen, but I've put it back in a drawer. I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me."
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear."
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
RISKS by Janet Rand
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool,
To weep is to risk being called sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk showing your true self.
To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.
To love is to risk not being loved in return,
To live is to risk dying,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk failure,
But risks must be taken, because the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love.
Chained by his certitude, he is a slave
