so what makes anger different from the 6 other deadly sins? it's pretty simple, really. you give in to a sin like envy or pride and you only hurt yourself. try lust or coveting and you'll hurt yourself and one or two others. but anger, anger is the worst; the mother of all sins. not only can anger drive you over the edge, if it does, you can take ( Read more... )

we're all damaged, it seems; some of us more than others. we carry the damage with us from childhood. then as grown ups, we give as good as we get. ultimately, we all do damage. and then we set about the business of fixing whatever we can.

a wise man once said "you can have anything in life if you sacrifice for it". what he meant is, nothing comes without a price. so before you go into battle, you better decide how much you are willing to lose. too often, going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right, and letting someone in means abandoning the walls you've ( Read more... )

at the end of the day, all you can do is pull it together. take a chance, start over, and move on.

life is not a spectator sport. win, lose or draw, the game is in progress, whether we want it to be or not. so go ahead, argue with the rest, change the rules, cheat a little, take a break, and tend to your wounds. but play...play. play hard, play fast, play loose and free. play as if there's no tomorrow. okay, so its not whether you win or lose, ( Read more... )

superstition lies in the space between what we can control and what we can't. find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck. no one wants to pass up a chance for good luck, but does saying it 33 times really help? is anyone really listening? and if no one is listening, why do we bother doing those strange things at all? we rely ( Read more... )

as friends, as human beings, we all try to do the best we can. But, the world is full of unexpected twists and turns. And just when you've gotten the lay of the land, the ground underneath you shifts and knocks you off your feet. if you're lucky, you'll end up with nothing more than a flesh wound, something a bandaid will cover. But some wounds are ( Read more... )

who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? it's not a day on a calendar, not a birthday, not a new year...it's an event, big or small, something that changes us. ideally, it gives us hope; a new way of living and looking at the world...letting go of old habits, old memories. what's important is that we never stop believeing that we ( Read more... )

there's an old proverb that says, "you can't choose your family. you take what the fates hand you; and like them or not, love them or not, understand them or not, you cope." then there's the school of thought that says the family you're born into is simply a starting point. they feed you and cloth you and take care of you until you're ready to go ( Read more... )

john dunn thought we should never be alone. of course, he had a fancier way of saying it. no man is an island, entire onto himself. boil down that island talk, and all he means is that we all just need someone to step in and let us know we're not alone.