Chubmeister 5000

The way you change a person is by getting through not to their head or their will but to their heart.

Nonviolence takes another approach. Practitioners of nonviolence seek to become their truest selves by slowly learning to love all beings, confident that all are kin and that we are called to embody this kinship concretely, especially in the midst of our most difficult and challenging conflicts.... Nonviolence is committed to challenging and... See more

It is difficult to say anything more general about the inequalities inimical to love, because different kinds of disparities can inhibit or kill conversation, depending on the kind of conversation it is.

Sometimes one person is too slow, like Bruce, or too silly, like Mr. Collins, or too desperate to impress, like Miss Bingley, or too puffed up and

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“Sin” derives from the Greek word for missing the mark : human beings are aiming creatures.

Similarly, to cross the cringe minefield, you need to have humility about the fact that your perception is distorted, right now. You simply cannot see the landscape of options in your life objectively. By default, you will ignore a path to your dreams if a personally perilous emotion—worthlessness, loneliness, imperfection—is along the way. If you... See more

In Christian monastic fixed-hour prayer ... the sacred pause is called lauds, the coming of the light. Brother David Steindl-Rast ... distills the holy message of lauds to the notion that each sunrise, each new beginning, is a never-ending gift. In turn, in response to this unasked-for benevolence, our reciprocity is to ask ourselves, “What gift... See more