Apologizing doesn't always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It means you value your relationship more than your ego.
02214 – Apologizing & Values
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02152 – Our Children: Extensions of Ourselves
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us...
02149 – Grief & Gratitude: Hand in Hand
The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them. How much sorrow can I hold? That's how much gratitude I can give. If I carry only grief, I'll bend toward cynicism and despair. If I have only...
02129 – Jesus Sent Stumblers & Sinners
Never once did Jesus scan the room for the best example of holy living and send that person out to tell others about him. He always sent stumblers and sinners. I find that comforting. from Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
02057 – Pride is a Hindrance
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.-------------------------------gender-neutral version: A proud person is always looking down on things and people; and,...
02046 – Automatic Defeat
If you hate a person, then you're defeated by them.
02043 – A Wounded Healer
A wounded healer is someone who can listen to a person in pain without having to speak about his or her own wounds.
00060 – Strengthening Our Egos
There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position — a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, and so the ego loves to make...
01928 – “Seeing Through a Glass Darkly”
A young couple moved into a new house. The next morning while they were eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbor hanging the washing outside. "That laundry is not very clean; she doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better detergent.” Her...
01909 – Understanding Intolerance
It's a universal law--intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.