Maturity - 4 views
Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong. (Sydney Harris)
Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong. (Sydney Harris)
"In the moment we cease resisting others, we're out of the box - liberated from self-justifying thoughts and feelings. This is why the way out of the box is always right before our eyes - because ...
"We jump forward willingly, even when what is required seems difficult physically or mentally or even financially. Such willingness expresses our innately considerate and generous nature. When ou...
"As long as our feelings are accusing, whatever we do will smell of accusation." (Bonds That Make Us Free)
Seeing others as people does not necessarily put a claim on my life that I must do everything I feel I should do for others. As Leadership & Self Deception puts it, "We simply do the best we can u...
They seem freeing to me. Free to not necessarily do everything I feel would be ideal.
I know this is thank you Thursday, but today maybe go the extra mile and do something good for someone, relieve somebody's burden, make someone feel good.
A quick review: 1. Recognize your Red Flags 2. Find an out of the box space 3. With your new perspective ponder the situation differently 4. Go do the thing you feel led to do for the other person...
It sounds so simple, until you realize that you will be repeating these three steps for a lifetime.
"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...
"I believe that the first test of a great person is humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of one's own power. But really great people have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them,...
Fantastic! Spot on and thought provoking! I love it!!!
"We jump forward willingly, even when what is required seems difficult physically or mentally or even financially. Such willingness expresses our innately considerate and generous nature. When ou...
"We tend to invite in other people the kind of mindset that we ourselves are operating from. This is why efforts to change others often can feel so frustrating: Despite efforts to do things differ...
How many of us have felt the negative effects of the lack of patience in our daily lives? I know I do, both from my own lack of patience as well as from others. Patience allows time to either make...
To see others as people is to feel responsible for any wrongs of our own, however small... If we want others to take responsibility for their actions, we invite that only by our taking responsibili...
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. (Lewis B. Smedes)
Here's a question for the group: What are the red flags of your awareness that you're "In-the-box"? Here are some of mine: 1. I feel victimized 2. I procrastinate 3. reclusive, avoid interaction ...
Okay so let's assume that you've now discovered an out-of-the box place. What do you do then? Perhaps you begin to think about the situation differently by asking yourself a series of questions: ...