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| About Elizabeth |
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| About ISM |
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| ISM Vision |
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| Coat of Arms Symbology |
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| On Working with Théun Mares |
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On Teaching and Relationships
An Introduction
Economics, and Politics
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Our wishes are not just idle day-dreams. Our wishes are an expression of our innermost predilection - a predilection which it is perfectly possible to fulfill, provided we use our knowledge wisely.
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We make of our lives what we will.
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Life is not your social conditioning, and neither are you your behaviour.
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If you wish to change you must cast off your self-image.
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To relate to ourselves, to others, or to the world, we need to be aware. To relate implies understanding.
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Take responsibility for having this person in your life.
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Don't treat the other person in your life any differently than you would a stranger.
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Accept yourself for who and what you are.
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Always look for the positive; focus on the positive.
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Acknowledge gender according to its proper potential.
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Compress time.
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Believe in yourself and in others.
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Make allowances for the differences between males and females.
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Laugh! Life is fun!
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Be real. Make yourself and others real.
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The cornerstone of true love is intelligent co-operation.
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Ruthlessness and unconditional love are synonymous.
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Actions speak louder than words.
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All of life is a system of games. Some games just require more carefully defined rules than others.
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Elizabeth Schnugh, Chartered Accountant, Financial Director of a multi-national company subsidiary for many years, a seeker by heart and an apprentice of Théun Mares.
Elizabeth Schnugh is the founder and director of the Institute for the Study of Man. The Institute offers practical courses with the emphasis on providing people with tools with which to uplift themselves and to change their lives.
Elizabeth has a simple, honest and highly practical approach in guiding people towards the necessary clarity so as to find their own answers based upon their experience of life.
This approach is not only encouraging and uplifting, but also utterly empowering - you will quickly find any problem can be solved, you will discover your own unique potential instead of being made to feel stupid and powerless.
Elizabeth qualified as a Chartered Accountant at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, in 1976. She then embarked upon a highly successful career in the corporate world, becoming Financial Director of Gilbey Distillers and Vintners, the South African subsidiary of the UK based multi-national company, International Distillers and Vintners Limited - a position she held for over 11 years.
Through her experience of working with a wide cross section of people in her career, Elizabeth began to realise that her talents and fate did not lie in the corporate world but in helping people to help themselves. Consequently in 1991 she started training as a teacher of the humanitarian disciplines.
In 1995 Elizabeth resigned from Gilbeys and by the beginning of 1996 founded Institute for the Study of Man and her commitment to teaching became fulltime.
Editorial: Elizabeth Schnugh and ISM
By David Yutar, Cape Argus, March 1999Feeling that life has let you down and that fate has treated you unfairly? Of course you are one among many in a time where depression and despair are becoming increasingly prevalent by the day. But you needn't continue to feel that you are a loser, according to Elizabeth Schnugh of the Institute for the Study of Man...