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He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. —Abraham Lincoln— Our negative judgments of others very frequently inform us of our own shortcomings. In other words, what we dislike in others are often those things we hate about ourselves. Much better than criticizing another’s abhorrent behavior is a decision to look […]
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No person could save another. —Joyce Carol Oates— We encounter the experiences we need in our lives. It’s sometimes hard to believe that when we’re grappling with disappointment, anger, or loss. Yet everything that comes our way is material for our growth. Many of us entertain a fantasy that some person can complete us. We […]
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All our resolves and decisions are made in a mood or frame of mind which is certain to change. —Marcel Proust— When we are alert in the here and now we are constant collectors of new information. Consciously and subconsciously we sift through it and file it away not to be forgotten, however. Our opinions, […]
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Let me listen to me and not to them. —Gertrude Stein— Our ears would fill with advice, if we listened to it: advertisers, evangelists, publishers, educators, all clamoring to market their products, try to get us to conform to their notions of what we should be. One of the dangers of a democratic society is […]
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. —Eleanor Roosevelt— Equality is a state of mind. When we value our own self-worth, we are comfortable with the achievements and the well-being of our friends and associates. The symptoms of a punctured ego occur when we criticize others […]
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Imagine that we conjure up a world that is safe for mothers and daughters. —Louise Bernikow— The question of violence and danger in society occupies a lot of time, breath, and printer’s ink. The possibilities of peace and safety take up very little. It is common for us to think of containing violence by greater […]
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The true wonder of the world is available everywhere, in the minutest parts of our bodies and in the vast expanses of the cosmos, and in the interconnectedness of these and all things. —Michael Stark— Let’s take a moment and look around ourselves. All that we see has its connection to us and to all […]
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If we seek to be loved—if we expect to be loved—this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping, not genuinely loving. —M. Scott Peck, M.D.— We receive love when we give love, with no strings attached. Bargaining for love is sure to disappoint us. It’s human nature, when bargainning for anything, to hope […]
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We are partakers of a common nature, and the same causes that contribute to the benefit of one contribute to the benefit of another. —William Godwin— Ecology, the study of how all life fits together, has an emotional dimension. We all know people who are emotional polluters. Bullies, gossips, or self-pitiers spread a noxious influence; […]
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When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. —C. S. Lewis— Retrospect offers us what no one moment, in the present, is capable of doing. There is a pattern to the events of our lives, and even what appear as the […]