A friend asked me about the quote from Henry David Theroux "Men living lives of quiet desperation" and what is that about? I went within to my presence and asked the same question and I heard "because they do not feel connected".  I asked "connected to what?" the answer I received was "to anything!"

 They do not feel connected to the people around them or animals, the trees, bushes, lakes rivers, desert to nature itself. They may not be  feeling a connectedness to spiritual source.

 This can mean you as your own spiritual source,The presence Within you  or you may believe that Source or God whatever you wish to call it can take the form of a specific religion.  Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, etc. There are a myriad of forms God can present itself to you. When we feel connected to people or things around us we do not feel lonely or desperate. We know there is help if we need it, something we can rely on.

 A lot of people do not have a “fallback” or feel there is nothing there to help them in times of desperation.  As Carl Jung has said that “whether or not you believe in God you must (for your own mental health) believe in a source outside yourself greater than yourself because we all have those times when we can’t depend on ourselves".  We must be able to believe that there is something “out there” that has the answers we need.

Another message I got from within was that people don't realize how remarkable they are. Perhaps this is because people think they have to feel remarkable to be remarkable. 

The thing about remarkable people I’ve found is that they don’t feel remarkable. I’ve known quite a number of people with IQ’s over 150 a couple of them 160 and 165.  What I realized is that these people don’t think they are smarter than anyone else they wonder why people ACT so unintelligent.  People who are creative geniuses rarely know they are geniuses.  They see others that they admire and wonder why they can’t be at that level?

How to realize that you are remarkable.  First believe that you are.  Everyone has some remarkable trait.  Second, listen to people when they compliments  you .  As in Gestalt Therapy if someone comes up to you and says you’re a horse’s ass you can write them off.  If two people say you’re a horse’s ass you can write them off but, it will give you pause to think about it.  If three people say you are a horse’s ass  you better start looking for a tail.

The same is true when several  people compliment you on an area of your life you work in or love to do. How often when someone compliments us do we automatically accept it? Probably not. We need to accept the fact that others believe we are remarkable and then look and see for ourselves ways in which we are remarkable.