Difficult Problems - 2 views
"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...
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"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...
"Sometimes we might be forced to defend ourselves, you're exactly right. But that is a different thing than saying that we are forced to despise, to rage, to denigrate, to belittle. No one can fo...
"Don't give up on anybody ... or leave anybody out ... My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's pres...
Where's your focus: 1. On others impact on you? or 2. Your impact on others? Think in the 4 directions of your work - Customer, Co-worker, Employee & Manager. If we are going to move the needle o...
"When we are caught up in it, we accuse others so as to excuse ourselves, and that makes it a judgmental way of being. We grasp at evidence that others are wrong and we are right, and that makes i...
1. To take up a hard, resentful attitude toward others is to have to live in a resented world, a world full of people who oppose and threaten us. How they are in our eyes is reflective of how we a...
Answer: Do the Collaboration Diagram. What is your impact on others? We now offer an implementation process that can be used once you've had the training.
"We seek this diminishment of others and our own elevation not because of any wrongs they many be doing to us. We do it because of the wrongs we are doing to them. Our demeaning, judgmental, and ...
"We can't feel justified in witholding kindness from others unless we find, or invent, some reason why they deserve it - some deficiency or despicable characteristic that requires us to ignore or c...
With what I've been learning, this rings very true. The words really bring the point to life. Well stated.
One of the most common questions I am asked with respect to this material goes something like this, "But what if the other person continues to disrespect me, belittle me, be rude to me? Doesn't th...
Today see if you can simply see others as people; not as objects who are an obstacle, or a vehicle or as irrelevant. Just people with the same hopes, needs, fears & anxieties you have. Today fo...
"Our opinions of the world and others are confessions of our characters." (adapted, Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"As long as our feelings are accusing, whatever we do will smell of accusation." (Bonds That Make Us Free)
"I know now that people only 'seem' to live when they care only for themselves, and that it is by love for others that they really live." (Leo Tolstoy)
"So here is a person working personally to live out of the box who had not considered what seeing others as people might mean for the biggest problems at work. Remember what it means to be working ...
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...
"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...
"Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort." ā Orrin Woodward
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)