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)
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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)
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 ...
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. (Mother Teresa)
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...
"A person's a person, no matter how small." ā Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
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....
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...
In the long term and very often in the short one, people respond more energetically, think more clearly, work more joyfully, and build more wisely, when they put one another ahead of self. (C. Terr...
Lasting solutions to the battles in our workplaces, homes, and battlefields will come only as we end the war in our own souls... Peace - whether at home, work, or between people - is invited only w...
We begin to get out of our own & each other's way in the very moment we open ourselves to each other's humanity. We have felt like we've needed to see each other as objects in order to survive, whe...
Why we should all admit (and embrace) being wrong: Attachment to our own rightness keeps us from preventing mistakes when we absolutely need to, and causes us to treat each other terribly. (Kathryn...
The unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion...
The paradoxical reality of helping others: Other people do have problems and shortcomings. Yes. And remember: so do I. I am as imperfect as the people I desire to help. I will invite change in othe...
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. (La Rochefoucauld)
The recovery of emotional freedom: When I am able to simply be myself rather than focus on myself -- to stand self-forgetfully. (C. Terry Warner)
A self is the pattern of responses to everyone and everything around us. How we see others is who we are. How we respond to them is who we are. If we cherish them, we are loving. We cannot descri...
It is important to try to appreciate how engulfing, how completely blinding self-deception is. We don't set out deliberately to mistreat or provoke others - we see them *in the first place* as dese...