Posted in Abandonment, Friendship, Friendships, Healing, Hope, Life, Longing, Love, Loving, Pain, Renewal, Temptation, friends, inspiration, liberation, random thoughts, tagged Christ, christian, christianity, Life, religion, religiousness, Sprituality, Thoughts on July 13, 2008 | No Comments »
At a Tim Horton’s, we ordered coffee, I ordered a doughnut. Denise wouldn’t have doughnuts. She seemed a little upset. I later found it was because she had visited her mother and became victim of her latest insensitive remarks.
“Why do you bother visiting your mom if all she does is hurt your feelings,” I [...]
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Posted in Christ, Community, Famous Quotes, Fortune Cookies, Hope, Life, Love, Loving, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, QOTD, QOTMFD, Quotations, Quote of the Day, Random, Renewal, Sprituality, Thoughts, babbling, church, daily life, god, idealism, inspiration, jesus, misc, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, religion, religiousness, theology, tagged catholicism, christian, christianity, freedom, liberation, Nelson Mandela on June 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Our deepest fear is not that we’re inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking [...]
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Posted in Aphorisms, Community, Creative Writing, Domestic Life, Friendship, Friendships, Hope, Life, Literary, Longing, Musings, Opinion, Psychology, QOTD, QOTMFD, Random, Renewal, Sprituality, Thoughts, articles, babbling, bad luck, daily life, friends, idealism, inspiration, liberation, ramblings, random thoughts, truth-seeking, tagged horatio alger, self-made man, success, counsel, fools paradise, hard work, nowhere to go but up on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
There are the Horatio Algers of this world, who have built for themselves a high degree of success by hard work. Such examples are rare. There are others, however, who have no choice, and have to build their lives up from scratch. They just come from negativity and have nowhere to go but in the [...]
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Posted in Abandonment, Domestic Life, Friendship, Friendships, General Comments, Hope, Life, Love, Loving, articles, christian, christianity, daily life, faith, friends, inspiration, tagged Abandonment, Aphorisms, christian, christianity, friends, Friendship, Friendships, inspiration, Life, Love, One liners, Opinion, Quotations, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, Thoughts on April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Hmm… I am not sure that I would agree that every relationship can be healthy. Just like knowing cheeseburgers are unhealthy doesn’t make them healthy. Similarly, if a person reacts to me in a negative way too often, I don’t think the secret would be to anticipate their negativity and to “socially engineer” only positive [...]
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Posted in Abandonment, Domestic Life, Friendship, Friendships, General Comments, Hope, Life, Love, Loving, articles, christian, christianity, daily life, faith, friends, inspiration, tagged Abandonment, Aphorisms, christian, christianity, friends, Friendship, Friendships, inspiration, Life, Love, One liners, Opinion, Quotations, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, Thoughts on April 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We are all different. Some people have certain properties about themselves that arise from an interplay between genes and environment which confers upon them certain strengths but gives them some vulnerabilities.
This gives us each a unique set of needs arising from our environment, and from its interplay between that and our physical being. Indeed, we [...]
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