LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #20 – POLITICS (A Way to Freedom) “Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.” ~ Wendell Berry It is an intriguing phenomenon, […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #21 – the challenge of SERIOUSNESS “It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously … Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow … It is the world’s original sin.” ~ Oscar Wilde “Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.” ~ P. J. […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #21 – SERIOUSNESS (Part 2 … a Way to Freedom) Though this post will offer a few specific tips as to how to free yourself from your addiction to over-seriousness, it is enough for you to remember the following general recommendation: A.C.T. – Acknowledge, Console & Transcend. Essentially, this practice […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #22 – the challenge of NEGATIVITY “Addiction is our unconscious attempt at making things better. Alcoholics and drug addicts reach for alcohol and drugs because the ‘trip’ they take during a high seems better than sobriety. Likewise, we’ve trained ourselves to reach for ‘negative emotions’ as a way of defending […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #22 – NEGATIVITY (Part 2 … a Way to Freedom) “Each one can only find Peace from within, and for this Peace to be real, it must remain unaffected by all external circumstances.” ~ Gandhi “He had an uncanny courage to deal with the negativity that surrounded him. Even though […]
And here’s a bit of that all-important Serenity Prayer WISDOM … There are the things that we can change: … our own intentions, our own attitude, and our own actions. And there are the things that we cannot change: … which is everything else.
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #23 – the challenge of CALLOUSNESS “We laugh at a man to avoid crying for him.” ~ Napoleon “The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to immediate fruits, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #23 – CALLOUSNESS (Part 2 … a Way to Freedom) Now that you have identified the areas in your life where a callousness addiction has taken hold (see previous post), it can be refreshing to learn that it is NOT necessary (and often not effective) for you to take up […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #24 – the challenge of ARROGANCE (or “PRIDE IS BLIND” … see image) “It is not that you read a book or pass an examination, and are then finished with your education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a continual […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #24 – ARROGANCE (Part 2 … a few Ways to Freedom) Now that our tendencies towards judgmental pride have been identified (see the previous post), it is time to identify some behaviors that can help you cleanse your ego-mind of that addiction. Seeing as how all forms of arrogance are […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #24 – ARROGANCE (Part 2 … a few Ways to Freedom) *TIP #02: DEFENDING THE DEFENSELESS Every time you hear gossip being uttered, and every time you are tempted to gossip yourself, have the humility to pause and openly defend the one being attacked instead. To do so does not […]
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