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Category Archives: Conscience
May God Bless Us All . . . with Discomfort, Anger, Tears, and Foolishness
. . . This is not by any means what we normally think of when asking God to bless us. Maybe when asking God to “bless” our enemies or oppressors, but not when asking him to bless our family and … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Conscience, Courage, Critical Thinking, Mother Teresa, Personal Growth, Ruth Fox, Saint Teresa of Avila, Spiritual Growth, The Examined Life, Truth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged "Franciscan Blessing", Anger, Charity, Discomfort, Love, Mother Teresa, personal growth, Sister Ruth Fox, Spiritual Growth, St Teresa of Avila, What is love?
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May Your Choices Reflect What’s Best in You….
When our choices reflect what’s best in us, when our choices reflect the better angels of our nature, when our choices reflect our deepest values and highest hopes, our virtues–courage, patience, wisdom, discernment, perspective–and principles such as a reverence for … Continue reading
C.S. Lewis on Why to Be Moral
. . The sort of idea that the word Morality raises in a good many people’s minds is that it’s something that interferes—Morality is something that stops you from having a good time. In reality, moral rules are directions … Continue reading
Posted in C.S. Lewis, Conscience, Critical Thinking, Love, Morality, Perspective, The Examined Life, Truth, Waking Up
Tagged C.S. Lewis, Conscience, Critical Thinking, Love, Morality, The Examined Life, Why Be Moral?
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C.S. Lewis & Ken Wilber on My Truth, Your Truth, and Morality
. “The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better, you are in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the other. But the … Continue reading
Posted in C.S. Lewis, Conscience, Critical Thinking, Ken Wilber, The Examined Life, Truth, Waking Up
Tagged C.S. Lewis, Conscience, Critical Thinking, Ken Wilber, Morality, Relativism, The Examined Life, Truth
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The Serenity Prayer, Self-Acceptance & Self-Care, and Discernment
. DISCERNMENT. (Noun.) A core component of wisdom. The ability to make fine yet profound/crucial distinctions; the ability to see (comprehend) more clearly what is unclear and obscure. The Serenity Prayer (as it applies to ourselves) God, grant me the … Continue reading
Posted in Conscience, Courage, Critical Thinking, Czeslaw Milosz, Denial, Differentiation, Difficulty, Goethe, John Kenneth Galbraith, Love, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Perspective, Self-Love, Spiritual Growth, The Examined Life, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged Change, Czeslaw Milosz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Kenneth Galbraith, personal growth, Self-Care, Self-Love, Self-Parenting, Serenity Prayer, The Examined Life
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There Are *No* Ordinary People!
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, … Continue reading
Posted in C.S. Lewis, Conscience, Mature Love, Real Love, Spiritual Growth, The Examined Life, Truth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged C.S. Lewis, Human Relationships, Intimacy, Love, Spiritual Growth, Truth
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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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Why Real Love Is So Difficult & Rare (updated 12-26-2012)
. (This is an updated version of a post I first publish on Feb 28, 2012 — “Why Real Love Is So Difficult & Rare“) . . “We have lost our sense of values: when your fence falls, you mend … Continue reading
Posted in Conscience, Conscious Love, Courage, Czeslaw Milosz, Differentiation, Emotional Maturity, Generosity, Honesty, Immature Love, Intimate Relationships, Love, Love is Not a Feeling, Mature Love, Mental Health, Real Love, Self-Extension, Spiritual Growth, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Thomas Merton, Truth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged Czeslaw Milosz, Growing Up, Laziness, Learning, Love, Love is Not a Feeling, Martin Luther King Jr., Nathaniel Hawthorne, Real Love, Selfishness, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Thomas Merton, Truth, Waking Up
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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