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These personal quotes or stories describe how the use of PRH tools has enriched lives and relationships.
If you would like to submit a personal story or quote for consideration, you can send it to your local PRH Educator.
Items are arranged according to the three main trails of a growth journey: Personal Solidity, Emotional Maturity and Faithfulness to My Conscience, and from the Popular Media.
Personal Solidity
“The PRH method has given me some new tools for self-knowledge. It offers a positive and constructive approach to inner exploration and growth.”
Brenda Elliott, Former Computer Analyst, Columbia, MO
“I am more aware of my limits and more able to stand up for myself. I feel freer to be me and a happiness in knowing who that me is.”
Pamela Ford, Aerobics Teacher, Rutland, MA
“I was able to find out how much I really love life.”
Carols Lopez, US Marine Corps, Pasadena, CA
“PRH has transformed my life….today I am an active participant in living my life fully.”
Monica O’Keefe, Counselor, Londondery, NH
“PRH is by far the best gift I have ever given myself.”
Carole Viola, Wife and Mother, Arcadia, CA
“This course has opened my eyes to all I can be. It gives me a process to shape my life.”
Teresa Woolery, Teacher, Tacoma, WA
Emotional Maturity
“This workshop built strength between us. We seem to be in the path of pulling down the walls and putting in sliding doors.”
Lawrence Argent, Artist, Santa Barbara,CA
“My life is better and healthier because of PRH. Our home environment is far richer than I could have hoped.”
Marian Corrigan, Homemaker, Piedmont, CA
“I’m learning that I can always get back in touch with my feelings, if I just listen to what my body is telling me.”
Al Fleischer, Retired Engineer, Concord, CA
“This work has made me realize that there is so much more depth to hurt…than what lies on the surface. What lies on the surface is what most people get hung up with. You can be so involved in your reaction that you never look beyond that. PRH has gifted me with the desire to keep looking further.”
Kim Frock, Credentialing Specialist, Hurley, SD
“PRH is the catalyst that changed my attitude toward life from despair to a deep feeling of human dignity.”
William Yeager, Retired Engineer, Roseburg, OR
Faithfulness to My Conscience
“The PRH process although simple in its methodology is magical in its results. I would highly recommend the workshop Who Am I? to any serious seeker.”
Jim Clarke, Business Man, Husband, Father, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Before PRH I had difficulty thinking of positive characteristics about myself. But that has changed and I can make healthy choices for living peacefully and with more confidence. There is nothing better than to be in the company of others who are in PRH. They are the most life-giving people in the world.”
Pat Dysthe, Mary Kay consultant, Sioux Falls, SD
“This workshop gave me the knowledge and focus to see how my decisions are made, who my authentic self is and now to grow.”
Mary Ann Kingsley, Customer Relations, S. Hadley, MA
“This workshop has given me a way to examine my life and begin to make decisions in a way that gets at my true self and what’s best for me.”
Louise Kuhlman, teacher, Brighton, MA
“A truly life-changing experience. I now have my priorities set and my life moving in a positive direction.”
Diane Tomlinson, Seminarian, Wife and Mother, Troy, MI
Popular Media
It is a strange gift, this birthright gift of self. Accepting it turns out to be even more demanding than attempting to become someone else! I have sometimes responded to that demand by ignoring the gift, or hiding it, or fleeing from it, or squandering it—and I think I am not alone. There is a Hasidic tale that reveals, with amazing brevity, both the universal tendency to want to be someone else and the ultimate importance of becoming.
Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (San Francisco, 2000) pp. 10-11, 15
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closet human beings infinite distances continue to exist, A WONDERFUL LIVING side by side, can grow up if they succeed in living the distances between them, which makes it possible to see the other~whole against the sky.
Rainier Maria Rilke, Poet
The time bound mode of consciousness is deeply embedded in the human psyche. But what we are doing here is part of a profound transformation that is taking place in the collective consciousness of the planet and beyond: the awakening of consciousness from the dream of matter, form, and separation. The ending of time. We are breaking mind patterns that have created unimaginable suffering on a vast scale. I am not using the word evil. It is more helpful to call it unconsciousness or insanity.
Eckhart Tolle, Power of Now, pg.67
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing “small” doesn’t serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about
shrinking so that other people won’t feel
insecure around you.
We were born to manifest the glory of God wihin us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
Maryann Williamson, Author (Quoted by Nelson Mandela, President, Republic of South Africa from his 1994 inaugural speech)
