Blind Certainty - 4 views
Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. ...I think this is one part of what teaching me how to think is really ...
Understand People - 3 views
Try to understand people. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a person well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love. (adapted, John Steinbeck)
Choosing Your Attitude - 6 views
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...
Do The Right Thing - 3 views
In the simple, yet profound, words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: "The time is always right to do what is right".
I Forgive You - 4 views
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...
How Should I Treat People? - 2 views
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. (Goethe)
Human Nature - 4 views
Anyone who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but their own disposition, will waste their life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief they propo...
The Mind - 5 views
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation. (Rab...
Misery - 5 views
This reminds me of the statement I read a long time ago that went something like this, "Never give others the power to control your emotions. If you require others to make you happy, then they have...
The Foundation - 2 views
The surprising, counter-intuitive core of Arbinger's foundational work: "I think I am resisting others because they have mistreated me. But the truth is: I resist others because I have mistreated t...
A person - 4 views
"A person's a person, no matter how small." ― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
The Past - 3 views
The parts of our psychological history that make a difference now do not reside in the past. They are present. It is our *presently* held story of the past that is our bondage or our freedom. (C. T...
Being Alive - 3 views
In any given moment, I am either alive to other people's reality or I am not, and everything else - including my thinking, my values, my principles, my behavior - will depend on this pivotal issue....
No Peace - 4 views
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. (Mother Teresa)
Enlightenment - 3 views
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. (William Blake)
Meeting Others - 13 views
I really like this quote!
Our Own Humanity - 4 views
Our own humanity is intimately bound up with our capacity to sense something of others' needs and feelings... We may or may not betray someone else when we do wrong by others, but we always betray ...
Criticism - 5 views
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. (Fulton J. Sheen)
Education - 10 views
I will reflect on it, and see what I can come up with.
started by Joe Bennett on 14 Apr 15
1 follow-up, last by Brian Suszek on 14 Apr 15
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Aggression - 2 views
I've been studying aggression for about 30 years, and I've seen that the most harmful belief that a person can have is that they're superior to others. (Brad Bushman)
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