Tag: self-criticism
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Acedia and the Climate Lie, Part 2
The Climate Lie I take this term from what I read in The Climate Mobilization website — it refers to: Our society is living within a massive lie. The lie says, “Everything is fine and we should proceed with business as usual. We are not destroying our climate and, with it, our stability and our…
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What Limits Me? (Part 3 of 3: What do others want?)
The third major issue I have is that I do not know what other people want. I was a therapist for 25 years, specialized in anger management. Over my career, I worked with more than 4000 people; many people told me that their lives changed as a result of working with me, sometimes in as…
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What Limits Me? (Part 2 of 3: What can one person do?)
The second limitation that I struggle with (see my previous post for the first) is the question of: What can one (more) person (me) do? We live in a very complex world that, in the space of my lifetime, has become a global village. As I look around, I am aware that large numbers of…
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What Limits Me (Part 1 of 3)
Hi to all. A question to you, the reader. What limits you in your ability to make changes in your life, or your world? I want to take the next few postings to explore what I am attempting to do here, with these postings. I strongly believe that we need a more mature culture (an…
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Talking about important issues
A couple of people have asked me to comment on the fact that they do not know how to talk about issues such as their own personal growth and/or the nature of spirituality. When they do, when they talk about how important these issues are to them, and how much they personally have been changed…
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What Are The Rules That Run You?
I frequently look around at my culture and wonder how have we gotten to this point of insanity. We are on the brink of collapse as a civilization, if not as a species, and yet there is so little surface evidence of this. When I dig, there is lots of evidence. Two recent emails posts…
Awakening From Your Anger 