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...
Human - 4 views
Humankind. Be both.
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...
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...
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....
Judgment - 3 views
It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey. (Steve Maraboli)
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)
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...
How Do We Change? - 4 views
Personal change is inherently paradoxical. It cannot be pursued directly, but is a byproduct of something else. I can only change by focusing on others - I cannot change by focusing on myself. (The...
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...
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...
Forgiveness - 1 views
"Forgiveness is making peace with something - or someone - you can not change." (Marina Cantacuzino)
Sincerity - 1 views
"Sincerity is being oneself without thinking of oneself. Self-forgetfulness is at the heart of sincerity. That means that if we try to force sincerity, we shall merely produce insincerity and hypoc...
The Thoughts in our Brains - 8 views
WOW....What an insightful way to evaluate our thoughts about others. It certainly makes me think twice about any "judgement" I may have of another person.
started by Joe Bennett on 16 Jan 14
1 follow-up, last by Harold Wright on 17 Jan 14
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Connection - 3 views
We are members one of another, connected to each other... And just for that reason, we become most ourselves when we are most true to one another. We become most right with ourselves when we are mo...
Education - 2 views
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. (Aristotle)
Forgiveness - 2 views
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. (Corrie ten Boom)
Finding Fault - 11 views
Gail - thank you for adding to our knowledge about self-deception. Glad to see you on the forum!
started by Joe Bennett on 27 Jan 14
2 follow-ups, last by Joe Bennett on 27 Mar 14
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Our Wounds - 2 views
The deepest wounds aren't usually the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people. (adapted, Isobelle Carmody)
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