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Tag Archives: Conscience
Only Proactive People Can Genuinely Love Others, Reactive People Can’t (updated)
(The following is abridged and adapted and modified from Stephen R. Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”) Between stimulus and response, human beings have the freedom to choose—but only *if* we develop and … Continue reading
Posted in "Man's Search for Meaning", "Siddhartha", Conscience, Conscious Love, Courage, Critical Thinking, Differentiation, Emotional Maturity, Hermann Hesse, Immature Love, Intimate Relationships, Love is a Choice, Love is a Decision, Love is Not a Feeling, Luke 6:32-35, M. Scott Peck, Mature Love, Mental Health, Perspective, Proactivity, Reactive, Real Love, Responsibility, Spiritual Growth, Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Examined Life, The Road Less Traveled, Truth, Viktor Frankl, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged "Greenberg", "Man's Search for Meaning", "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", Albert Camus, Conscience, differentiation, Emotionally Reactive, George Gissing, M. Scott Peck, Proactivity, Reactive, Reactivity, Real Love, Self-awareness, Stephen Covey, The Road Less Traveled, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Viktor Frankl
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Love, the Feeling, versus Love, the Capacity (Immature Love versus Mature Love, part 2)
. A properly (or fully) developed human being is a Loving human being. Love, ultimately, is a capacity. A capacity that develops as the result of developing many other capacities and virtues and behavioral predispositions. Some of these are of … Continue reading
Posted in chapter 13, Conscience, Conscious Love, Courage, Differentiation, Emotional Maturity, Friendship, Generosity, Gratitude, Honesty, Immature Love, Love is Not a Feeling, Mature Love, Perspective, Real Love, Self-Love, Spiritual Growth, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Truth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged Behavior, Character Orientation, Conscience, Conscious Love, Conscious Relationships, Gratitude, Immature Love, Love, Love is a Virtue, Love is Not a Feeling, Matthew Chapter 13, Mature Love, Real Love, Relationships, Romatic Love, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Thich Hnat Hanh, Virtue, Virtues
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Feeding Your FOOL versus Feeding Your CONSCIENCE
. This post is in response to a post on another blog I read and follow–http://momastery.com/blog/2012/12/12/to-all-the-confounders/ . “I must learn to love the fool in me–the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes … Continue reading
Thoreau on Love
Love is a severe critic. Hate (as well as self-centeredness and self-interest) can pardon more than love. The heart is blind; but Love is not blind. None of the gods is so discriminating. We may love and not elevate one … Continue reading
Love & Friendship—How Do You Know *You’re* Ready for a Real Relationship?
. How do you know when you’re actually ready for a relationship? Not just how do you know when you’re available emotionally for a relationship, but how do you know when you’re healthy enough to be an asset to a … Continue reading
Love & Conscience: Some of my favorite Martin Luther King Jr quotes
To actually genuinely love another person requires that we have a well-developed conscience. Without a conscience we may feel affection for another, we may say we love another, but we will not actually treat another with love, respect, goodness, appreciation, … Continue reading
Posted in Conscience, Conscious Love, Emotional Maturity, Martin Luther King Jr., Real Love, Self-Extension
Tagged Conscience, Cowardice, Love, Martin Luther King
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We MUST Choose!
I’ve posted today on my other blogs instead of here because thematically the subject matter was a bit better suited for those blogs, but it would still be apropos here and dovetail well with the main thrust of this blog—learning more about … Continue reading
Posted in Conscience, Courage, Differentiation, Love, Mature Love, Mental Health, Real Love, Spiritual Growth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged Choice, Choosing, Conscience, Good versus Evil, Growth, Love, Making a Change, Mental health, Reality, Truth
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Why Marriages and Long-Term Relationships Succeed or Fail
The short answer is: it all comes down to the level of character development of the two people in the relationship and the reason why they entered into the relationship. Deeply decent people have it within themselves to make a … Continue reading
Posted in "The Art of Loving", Conscience, Differentiation, Emotional Maturity, Immature Love, Intimate Relationships, Love is Not a Feeling, Mature Love, Mental Health, Real Love, Responsibility, Schnarch, Spiritual Growth, The Road Less Traveled, What is Love?
Tagged "Passionate Marriage", "The Art of Loving", Aristotle, Conscience, Erich Fromm, Ethics, Friendship, M. Scott Peck, Marriage, Mature Love, Nicomachean Ethics, Nietzsche, Real Love, Relationship, Right and Wrong, Schnarch, The Road Less Traveled, Virtue
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Only Proactive People Can Genuinely Love Others, Reactive People Can’t
(The following is abridged and adapted and modified from Stephen R. Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”) Between stimulus and response, human beings have the freedom to choose—but only if—if—we develop and exercise … Continue reading
Posted in "Man's Search for Meaning", Conscience, Conscious Love, Courage, Dependency, Differentiation, Emotional Maturity, Immature Love, Love, Love is a Choice, Love is a Commitment, Love is a Decision, Love is an Act of Will, Love is Not a Feeling, M. Scott Peck, Mature Love, Mental Health, Proactivity, Reactive, Responsibility, Self-Love, Spiritual Growth, Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Road Less Traveled, Viktor Frankl, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged "Greenberg", "Man's Search for Meaning", "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", Albert Camus, Conscience, differentiation, Human, M. Scott Peck, Proactivity, Reactive, Real Love, Self-awareness, Stephen Covey, The Road Less Traveled, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Viktor Frankl
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Are You in a Conscious or an Unconscious Relationship?
Our intimate relationships and friendships (even family relationships between adults) can be characterized as being either conscious or unconscious. A conscious relationship is organized around two people’s highest values and principles; it is governed by their consciences, by their sense … Continue reading
Posted in 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7, Conscience, Conscious Love, Courage, Differentiation, Emotional Maturity, Gratitude, Immature Love, Intimate Relationships, Kohlberg, Love, Love is Not a Feeling, Mature Love, Mental Health, Prayer of St. Francis, Spiritual Growth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7, Conscience, Conscious Love, Conscious Relationships, Consciousness, Ethics, Health, Intimate relationship, Katy Perry, Kohlberg, Love, Mature Love, Mental health, Prayer of St. Francis, Relationship, Titanic, Twilight
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