The New Age and inner growth somehow go hand in hand. We thought we’d try this page on our site to share some of your hard-earned wisdom with each other. If you are so inclined, please submit a valuable lesson or insight you've discovered and wished you'd known all along.

• I once took a course in communication at Harvard. The professor asked the students, “What, for you, is the sound of thinking?” One part of the class said, “Silence;” the rest said, “Talking.” Just imagine how difficult it is for a type 1 to work with a type 2!   ~Muriel M.

• All in a lather just before a trip, trying to clean the house, prune the peonies, and tie up every loose end in every corner of my entire life, I was getting frantic and hysterical when a friend of mine happened to call. “Steve,” he said calmly, “don’t include it if it doesn’t forward the plot.”   What a wonderful way to set priorities.  ~Stephen L.

• A friend of mine who raised four children once told me the entire secret of successful mothering. “You just have to remember,” she told me, “that not everybody can be happy all the time.”  ~Linda B.

• You can’t expect anyone to love you enough to know what it is you want. What you can expect is someone to love you enough to want to get it for you once they know what it is that you want. Help them out by telling them.  ~Helen O.

• The thing you think is happening may not be what is actually happening at all.  ~Donald R.

• Whining and nagging are not aphrodisiacs. Trust me on this.   ~Marianne Williamson (submitted by Charlie B.)

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