We are built—programmed from birth—to hold on to those who offer themselves to our grasp. Before we understand anything else we know the need for loving connection.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
—Golda Meir
We think of the covenant of the Jewish people with their God as being based in a list of negative commandments: Thou Shalt Not…. But even those Ten Commandments start with an affirmative: “I am the Lord your God.”