What is it that prevents people from living to their full potential?
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"Once you accept all your responsibilities in its totality,
you become mature.
You stop throwing tantrums and
you stop seeking messiahs.
Then there is no need for any Jesus to save you.
Nor can any Jesus save you -
he was exploiting your situation." --- Osho
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conscience and poor spelling
Probably it's all types of fear. In most cases, it's fear and lack of courage, I think.
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~ "Life is an art work without an eraser" ~
Scared of failure and feeling like they are nothing.
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It can take many lives to clear the debts incurred in one lifetime.
Lack of confidence in our own abilities.
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Hugs are not measured in quantity, they are measured by the quality of love they are given with.....
Who says some people don't?
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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? --Woody Allen
I think lots of people often do things they don't really want and which stop "living life to the fullest". At least I do. Even if I don't want to and try to avoid it: it just happens because I don't want to disappoint people, fear the consequences or am just too damn shy.
Maybe others feel similar.
I think potential isn't really a known destination. "Potential" is what a person might become given the right set of circumstances. I believe those circumstances are not constrained by our own gifts or limitations, but also by the challenges of the situations we face. Most people never realize what they are capable of until they are forced to overcome sometimes overwhelming obstacles. Only then, do we see these people as having "reached some potential".
Considering the obstacles overcome, and in some cases, not overcome, by persons of greatness, I'm happy to accept my "potential" as a hypothetical circumstance. I'll reach it when I must. Until then, I will compromise by just reaching a state of confident acceptance of who I am on a slower, steadier path to becoming a better person - by my own definition instead of one that others may define as the pinnacle of my great possibilities.
could be a mixture of things .... life, situations, outside demands, insecurity etc
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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'
internal talking 
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Little to the left.
concience...