Prejudice - 3 views
Prejudice...means we don't see the other human being anymore, but only our own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence...
Who We Are - 3 views
Our happiness is not necessarily a function of meeting our needs first, or at the expense of others. In fact, to address our needs in such a way is to foster unhappiness. The reality of life is tha...
Understanding/Overcoming - 5 views
"If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength." ― Lao Tzu
The Long Term - 3 views
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...
Peace - 5 views
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...
Conflict - 3 views
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...
I'm Right! - 3 views
Whenever we are inclined to insist, "I'm right and you're wrong!" we are probably wrong... When we are not willing to consider being wrong, our search for what is right is not completely sincere. (...
Cherishing Others! - 5 views
We cannot cherish others while judging and criticizing them.
Helping Things Go Right - 7 views
Could you please give an example? This quote is one of those linguistically ambiguous to me. Thank you! :-)
Reframing Goals/Outcomes - Critical Lab Test Results - 2 views
In a public medical group that adopted Arbinger's work, the leadership team was conducting an investigation into a case in which a patient died after he had sought medical consultation more than a ...
Happiness & Letting Go - 5 views
Very fine quote. Here's another, "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." Dalai Lama
Transformation - 2 views
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." ― C.G. Jung
My View of Myself - 4 views
My view even of myself depends on which way I see others... How others seem to me is a revelation of myself. The self cannot be pried apart from how I see and feel about others. (Bonds That Make Us...
Self Deception - 5 views
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...
Who Are We? - 3 views
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...
Self-Forgetfullness - 3 views
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)
Faults Of Our Own - 4 views
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. (La Rochefoucauld)
The Paradox - 3 views
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...
Altered Versions of Ourselves - 3 views
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...
Being Wrong - 2 views
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...
« First
‹ Previous
241 - 260
Next ›
Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page