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...
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...
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...
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)
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)
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 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...
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...
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
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 ...
Cherishing Others! - 5 views
We cannot cherish others while judging and criticizing them.
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. (...
Misery - 5 views
This reminds me of the statement I read a long time ago that went something like this, "Never give others the power to control your emotions. If you require others to make you happy, then they have...
The Mind - 5 views
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation. (Rab...
Foolishness - 4 views
Foolishness is more than not knowing; it's that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance. (adapted, Paul Tripp)
A Problem - 4 views
It is a problem to insist that others need to change while being unwilling to consider how I, myself, might need to change too. (The Anatomy of Peace)
Curiosity - 4 views
Being curious and learning about the people in our lives helps remind us that we might be mistaken in our views and opinions of them; perhaps a strategy I've taken with a child is hurtful, perhaps ...
Control - 3 views
Control will sometimes coerce compliance but it will never win allegiance and commitment. When the methods by which we try to change people represent more efforts to control them, these methods ult...
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