The True Measure of a Life - 5 views
Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other. There will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The true me...
Empathy - 3 views
The best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings. (John Geddes)
Walk With Me - 2 views
Walk with me for a while, my friend - you in my shoes, I in yours - and then let us talk. (Richelle E. Goodrich)
Violence - 3 views
"We can change this endless cycle of violence. The only way out is the ability to listen to the pain of the other." (Rami Elhanan, an Israeli who is part of a group of Israelis & Palestinians worki...
Violence - 3 views
Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with the roots of violence, particularly those that exist within each of us....
Seeing Other As People Means .... - 3 views
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...
Magnification - 6 views
The Arbinger Institute's Jim Ferrell said, "We magnify the worst in each other; we miss some of the problems in ourselves and we drive each other apart." Sometimes the best way to come together is ...
Prejudice - 3 views
Prejudice of any kind... means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a f...
Human - 4 views
Humankind. Be both.
Happy For Others? - 4 views
Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (Victoria Moran)
Is Patience Weakness? - 9 views
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...
Thoughts & Feelings - 4 views
We shouldn't believe everything that our thoughts and feelings are telling us about ourselves and others. In fact, the more our thoughts and feelings keep obsessing on others' faults, for example, ...
Cloudy Lenses - 2 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...
A Quote from Buddha - 4 views
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these. (Gauta...
A Victim - 3 views
"But then I recognized, 'I am no longer a victim. It doesn't matter what this man does. My life will not be contingent on what he decides to do.' And suddenly I recognize that I am free." (Robi Dam...
Forgiveness - 1 views
"Forgiveness is making peace with something - or someone - you can not change." (Marina Cantacuzino)
Judgement - 3 views
When we are prone to harshly judge and condemn others, we should inquire how far we fall short ourselves; we should also consider those periods of suffering when we ourselves were perhaps misjudged...
The Correct Focus - 4 views
Don't focus on what others are doing wrong. Do focus on what you can do right to help. Don't worry whether others are helping you. Do worry whether you are helping others. ("Living the material", L...
Looking For The Strength - 2 views
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections... It is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. (...
Self-deception - 1 views
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