Archive for June, 2009

Steve

Compassion: Understanding Suffering

June 28th, 2009
Posted by steve

An important part of life is compassion. We all know what passion is, right? Passion is a powerful or compelling emotion or feeling. Without passion, life would seem like a black hole. Compassion is somewhat similar. We use the deep emotion and display its affection towards another person who is stricken by misfortune and we feel a strong desire to alleviate the suffering. (more…)

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Thinking Before you Speak

June 23rd, 2009
Posted by steve

Often times people run into a situation where they wish they thought before they spoke. Have you encountered such an incident? Afterwards you may feel remorse and regret for saying what you said, knowing how it would affect the other party… but you said it anyway. Why? What did you gain from it? Or maybe you just made a mistake.

Most of us are given a “filter”. This “filter” protects us from saying stupid, asinine things. A thought will go through your head and as this thought makes its way to your mouth, the “filter” will make a last-minute decision on whether or not you should say this. Most of the time it works. When it doesn’t, be prepared to ask forgiveness. (more…)

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Listening is Wanting to Hear

June 19th, 2009
Posted by steve

We’ve all done it… we sit there and pretend we’re paying attention to what the other person is saying. You’re day dreaming about what you’re going to do later tonight when all of a sudden you stop hearing that mumbling sound and you realize it was the person you were talking to about a minute ago. (more…)

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