Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop.... Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.
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Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.Hugh Prather
Sometimes when I generalize, I am saying, 'Let's pretend I am God,' and of course the other person argues that point endlessly. But I notice that if the other person takes a stand for himself and states his thoughts as his thoughts, I pay more attention to what he is saying and look deeper in myself.
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Do I avoid looking a stranger in the eyes because I don't want to make him uncomfortable, or do I turn my eyes so he can't look into me What is in there that I don't want him to see.
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Fault means failure to meet a standard. Whose Mine.
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Support your friends even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.
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