Being who you want to be, and doing what you want to be

The first trick an elephant trainer teaches an elephant is not to escape. When the elephant is still but a baby, the trainer chains the infant's leg to a huge log, so when/if the elephant tries to escape, the log proves stronger and he gives up. Eventually the elephant becomes so used to its captivity, that even when it has grown huge and strong, all the trainer has to do is merely tie the chain around the elephant's leg to anything—even a tiny little twig—and the elephant won't even try to escape.

It has become a prisoner of its past.We must declare your own Independence Day, then our own Independence Year, then our own Independence Life. The purpose of your life is to find the purpose of your life.Being who you want to be, and doing what you want to do, is self-respect.

Something even the flower knows to wisely cash in on. A flower instinctively goes toward the light. It doesn't spend time worrying if people will mistake it for a weed or if it's taking too much sun. It wisely and simply follows its primal flower gut instincts to attain its highest level of flowerosity.

Conversely, we—and our busy, busy brain—have been programmed to think, think, think—and so we have been ignoring our heart's instincts. Just like the eagles in the chicken days

--> It's when the eagle finally followed its heart that his life finally began to soar.