Recording here to ponder later.

We suffer because we marry our instinctive aversion to pain to the deep-seated belief that life should be free from pain. In resisting our pain by holding this belief, we strengthen just what we're trying to avoid. When we make pain the enemy, we solidify it. This resistance is where our suffering begins ( Read more... )

One of my most important takeaways to date from Martin Seligman's book, Flourishing* is the idea that while everyone probably has a baseline level of happiness from which they rise or fall in the normal progress of Life Things, that baseline is not the same for everyone. Some people are more naturally perky and bubbly about life in general, others ( Read more... )

November 22, 2010 ( Read more... )

"Hope and faith are different. Whereas faith is self-affirming and acceptance of life as it is, hope involves a dissatisfaction with self and present circumstance, and is dependent upon external events or people to provide change. People hope that life will be different, or better, or fuller; their hoping involves a lack of acceptance and a thrust ( Read more... )

dicea asked something of me yesterday:
When you get a moment sometime and the spirit strikes you, would you be able to write up a little paragraph or so about the relationship between the listening skill and active compassion? I'd like to hear your view on it.slightly modified; i'm writing about compassion and *active listening*. as i warned her, and ( Read more... )