40 Day Challenge - Day 22 - 3 views
Protection Think about your other person for a moment. Think about your relationship with your other person. Is there anything that you are allowing to attack and/or poison that relationship? H...
40 Day Challenge - Day 40! - 13 views
I agree! I will definitely need to revisit (and revisit, and revisit...) I continue to struggle with "who" I need to let go so, continued evaluation is necessary. Thanks for leading this Joe!!!
Miserable! - 5 views
If you want to be miserable think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you. (Charles Kingsley)
Seek First to Understand - 4 views
The person who says, "I am right!" and who refuses to question their position in order to discover whether they are right, will continue to follow the line of their passions and prejudices, and wil...
Negative Attitudes - 4 views
To the degree that our negative, afflicted attitudes and emotions are accusing and self-excusing, we are responsible for them, and to that very degree we can stop indulging in them. (C. Terry Warner)
Empathy - 5 views
True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. 'If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have...
A Meaningful Life - 3 views
"Service and sacrifice are at the heart of a meaningful life. How meaningless life is if we're just feeding our faces and scratching our itches." (C. T. Warner)
Peace - 4 views
Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It is you. The problem begins and ends there. (adapted, Byron Katie)
Power - 4 views
"The measure of a man is what he does with power." - Plato, 428 BC-348 BC.
Victims - 4 views
Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and movin...
Be a Bridge - 3 views
Love the simplicity of this! "A fo ben, bid bont" (Welsh saying) Translation: If you want to be a leader, be a bridge.
What Should I Seek? - 3 views
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. (Rumi)
Anger - 3 views
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger than from those very things for which you are angry. (Marcus Aurelius)
How Does an "I" Become an "I"? - 7 views
Yes, thank you!
Wrong - 3 views
Might I be in the wrong? ...Just to ask the question seriously, even without answering it, is already to undergo a change of attitude. (C. Terry Warner, Bonds That Make Us Free, p. 197)
40 Day Challenge - Day 39 - 4 views
Learning Learning happens in relationship with others. The quality and quantity of learning is a function of the quality of the relationships in which the learning takes place. Today's Challen...
40 Day Challenge - Day 38 - 4 views
The Full Truth What is the full truth about those I am blaming? Are they as monstrous as I think? Are they as guilty as I insist? Is there no room for compassion? To ask this question is to a...
40 Day Challenge - Day 37 - 2 views
Yesterday Yesterday is done, today is a new day. But it is always helpful to reflect on yesterday - what went well, where did I blow it? Who made me angry, frustrated or annoyed? What was I unc...
40 Day Challenge - Day 23 - 4 views
Forgiveness Imagine finding yourself in a prison-like setting. As you look around, you see a number of cells visible from where you're standing. You see people from your past incarcerated there ...
40 Day Challenge - Day 24 - 3 views
Taking Responsibility As in anything in life, the benefits we enjoy from our relationships with others depends on how responsible we are with them. That is why taking personal responsibility is o...