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The Real Cause of Disagreement

The ultimate cause of disagreement is our unreadiness for agreement   We don’t really want peace. We don’t really want consensus. What we want is to be LARGE. Larger then our neighbour, larger then our brother, larger then our lover.   The absurdity of most conflicts doesn’t as much point at our stupidity as it …

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We Label Each Other

The only way to threat someone badly is by deliberately hurting them. You can’t be held accountable for not helping someone. Most can’t be helped. “Good treatment”, “rules of conduct”, “good behaviour” — all these are constructs. It’s subjective “good”, agreed “good”, and not objective. We have a habit of labelling things. This habit makes …

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Lifestyle Spirituality

NEVER Be Afraid To Be Disliked

  You DO want to be liked. You said you didn’t but you do. You were said: be kind be friendly be polite be useful! be grateful be pleasant be agreeable be helpful …or people won’t LIKE YOU and you were said: be cool be pretty be funny be successful be respectable be rich be …

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Lifestyle

Believe in Someone

If you believe in someone then it’s never wrong to give another chance. If you don’t believe in someone then it’s never wrong NOT to give a single chance.   There are infinitely many people in this planet. Those you believe in are more valuable then the rest of the planet. Those you don’t believe …

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Philosophy

Honesty / Meanness

Honesty can appear as meanness but meanness can never pass up as honesty – as some would like to believe.   Is it integrity, valiant shielding of the truth — or is he just a mean person? Insecure person? Ambitious person? Angry person?   If truth can’t defend itself then who are you to defend …

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The Wrongs Are Wrongs

The wrongs are wrongs.   It won’t cease being wrong just because you ignore it.   It will anger you for as long as you not solve it.   Your wrongs you correct with action and/or understanding.   Wrongs of others you correct by: 1) Correcting them 2) Getting rid of them 3) Making the …

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Lifestyle

Blame Is Only Ignorance

You can’t really blame the other person.   The other person is precisely what it is.   You can only ever blame your judgement. Or your management of the situation.     Blame is really just a word used for a particular set of thoughts and feelings (thought-feelings). I can use the word “blame” to …

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Lifestyle

A Man Who Respects Himself

A man who respects himself ought not put up with anything he doesn’t approve of. Unless he doesn’t have a choice. In which case he should accept it completely – and make NOT ONE complaint about it.   This sounds simple and banal perhaps – but it is actually most difficult.   The difference between …

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