If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.
03557 – Don’t Trade Authenticity for Safety
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03393 – What is Manipulation?
Manipulation is when they blame you for your reaction to their disrespect.
03329 – Fixing What’s Wrong
Listen to the people who are talking about how to fix what's wrong, not the ones who just work people into a snit over the problems. Listen to the people who have ideas about how to fix things, not the ones who just blame others.
03088 – Christianity Challenges Convictions
Christianity does and will challenge almost every conviction you have. That is its business. So don’t blame me—you have been warned! from Letters
02642 – Who is to Blame?
What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves...
02525 – Science vs. Religion
It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull,...
01770 – Taking it Like a Man
When God confronted Adam about his sin, Adam took it like a man...he blamed a woman. -
01591 – Scapegoating is Human Nature
Human nature, when it is seeking power, wants either to play the victim or to create victims of others. In fact, the second follows from the first. Once we start feeling sorry for ourselves, we will soon find someone else to blame, accuse or attack—and with impunity!...
01345 – Characteristics of Repentance
Repentance isn't about blame, or avoiding the cost of being blamed. It's about putting on a new mind, that is, seeing the familiar with fresh eyes, changing one's opinions and behaviors in order to come closer to God's desire. Repentance seeks change, not blame....
00526 – Prayer and the Powers
Prayer is not just a two-way transaction. It also involves the great socio-spiritual forces that preside over much of reality. I mean the massive institutions, social structures and systems that dominate our world today, and the spirituality at their center. …Prayer...