Blind Certainty - 4 views
Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. ...I think this is one part of what teaching me how to think is really ...
Success - 5 views
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. (Danny Thomas)
The Enemy - 4 views
When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others. (De...
Your Destination - 4 views
One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. (Henry Miller)
The Voice - 4 views
Beneath all of our hiding and pretending and protecting and defending and accusing and criticizing, there is a voice whispering the answer. We don't need anyone to tell us -- we already know. I sto...
The Inner Shift - 5 views
An inner shift is required to hear the story of the enemy. For me the question is always about whether I can let go of my need to blame, and open my heart enough to hear. (Jo Berry)
Kindness - 4 views
Kindness without love is not kindness at all. It's patronage, it's condescension, it's smugness and superiority. If you have been the recipient of this species of 'kindness', you know that you woul...
Pride - 3 views
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still aliv...
Forgiveness - 7 views
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us....
Sincerity - 5 views
Sincerity is being oneself without thinking of oneself. Self-forgetfulness is at the heart of sincerity. (Arthur Henry King)
When I Am Receptive - 7 views
Nice sentiment, very Zen.
False Images - 3 views
Unless we are very, very careful, we doom each other by holding onto images of one another based on preconceptions that are in turn based on indifference to what is other than ourselves... I notice...
Changing Your Mind - 4 views
Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. It can be disorienting to say, 'I don't know.' But it's infinitely more rewarding to understand than to be right - even if that means ...
A Little Wisdom from Tolkien - 5 views
For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own wrongs and follies; and realize that people's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as thei...
Condemnation - 5 views
I have always been mystified by the speed with which people condemn one another... This seems to give them intense pleasure. Whenever I am tempted by this pleasure, I remember some impulse in mysel...
The Truth - 3 views
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. (Virginia Woolf)
A Common Delusion - 4 views
People everywhere are deluded by the superstition that their happiness rests with other people and with outward things, and, as a result, they live in continual disappointments, regrets, and lament...
Generosity - 5 views
Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are. (Patti Digh)
How Do We Change? - 7 views
When someone we have been blaming becomes real to us, we change. We become a person who sees another person as real. We change from being accusing, guarded, and self-absorbed to being open, self-fo...
Look Inside - 5 views
So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications. (Pema Chodron)
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