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)
What if You Didn't Have to Worry About Yourself? : zenhabits - 1 views
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Joe Bennett on 24 Mar 14Nearly every moment of every day of our entire lives (more than 1.2 billion seconds for me) is spent worrying about ourselves. We are preoccupied by concern about ourselves: am I doing the right thing, will I mess this up, will I be able to meet deadline, what do other people think of me, am I good enough, why is this happening to me, how can I get better, why don't people listen to me, why don't they treat me better, why can't they get out of my way, why is my body so fat, why don't things go my way, am I missing out on things? But what if we were freed of this worry about ourselves?
Anger - 4 views
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to ...
Decide - 3 views
Every person must decide whether they will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. (adapted, Martin Luther King, Jr.)
The leadership secret Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg have in common - 2 views
The Practice of Humility - 2 views
These are a few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To accept contradictions and c...
If You Want to Convict Someone, Forgive Them | James Ferrell - 2 views
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When we see others as people, we see their hopes, needs and fears, and this willingness to see and understand informs everything we do with them. When we see others as objects, on the other hand, we give ourselves license to treat them inhumanely. In order to feel justified, we don't allow ourselves to consider the positive in them.
No Man Is An Island - 3 views
A fantastic reminder! Live for others... So simple, so powerful.
started by Joe Bennett on 14 Mar 14
1 follow-up, last by Brian Suszek on 16 Mar 14
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Servant - 3 views
I don't know where being a servant came into disrepute. It is the refuge of a philosopher, the food of the lazy, and, properly carried out, it is a position of power, even of love. (John Steinbeck)
Judgment - 3 views
It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey. (Steve Maraboli)
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...
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.
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