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The way people communicate is always an outgrowth of their deepest attitude, or way of being, toward each other. When people are essentially self-concerned-when they are defensive, resistant, or in...
To the degree that our negative, afflicted attitudes and emotions are accusing and self-excusing, we are responsible for them, and to that very degree we can stop indulging in them. (C. Terry Warner)
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer suffi...
"Sooner or later you run out of excuses. Healing comes when we take extraordinary responsibility for our emotions and attitudes. Healing comes when we cease to excuse ourselves by blaming others."
"So if we are going to find lasting solutions to difficult conflicts or external wars we find ourselves in we first need to find our way out of the internal wars that are poisoning our thoughts, fe...
1. To take up a hard, resentful attitude toward others is to have to live in a resented world, a world full of people who oppose and threaten us. How they are in our eyes is reflective of how we a...
"This word perverse, helpfully captures the fact that the guarded, suspicious, I-It attitude is not a way of being on its own, but a twisting, distorting or misshaping of the natural, good, and gra...
Sacrifices When life is difficult for us, we notice. Sometimes the only way we notice that life is hard for our other person is when they complain about it. We chalk it up to a bad attitude or g...
Though I might travel afar, I will meet... what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see... ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are reflections of our own....
Might I be in the wrong? ...Just to ask the question seriously, even without answering it, is already to undergo a change of attitude. (C. Terry Warner, Bonds That Make Us Free, p. 197)
Excellent - glad to hear it!
I wil continue this one at least for 5 days (2 days so far)! Small gifts to everyone I feel the need to improve my relationship with. Or simply to cheer somebody up at work. For me, it comes easy, ...
started by Joe Bennett on 06 Aug 14
7 follow-ups, last by Mingaile Taber on 20 Aug 14
To say 'I forgive you' is almost condescending - it locks me into an 'us and them' scenario keeping me right and you wrong. That attitude won't change anything. But I can experience empathy, and in...
Go Gail, Go!
