Sometimes we are just the collateral damage in someone else's war against themselves.
04085 – Collateral Damage?
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02867 – Tell Your Story
One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through and it will be someone else's survival guide.
02715 – Spirituality, Humanity, & Religiosity
If your spirituality denies someone else's humanity, it isn't spirituality; it is hatred wrapped up in religiosity.
02237 – Doubt is the Beginning of Real Faith
The problem with accepting truth as it comes to us rather than truth as we divine it for ourselves is that it's not worth dying for--and we don't. It becomes a patina of ideas inside of which we live our lives without passion, without care. This kind of faith happens...
02136 – Saying “Yes” to Extra Work
I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.
02048 – Showing Your Dreams
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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...
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!...
00297 – Being Myself
There is a Hasidic tale that reveals, with amazing brevity, both the universal tendency to want to be someone else and the ultimate importance of becoming one’s self: Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man said, “In the coming world, they will not ask me: ‘Why were you...
00031 – Gospel of the Kingdom Transforms Shame
Shame seems most widespread and deepest among the very people who take rightness and goodness most seriously. It is a dimension of condemnation that reaches into the deepest levels of our souls. In shame we are self-condemned for being the person we are. It touches...