What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one’s self-approval. ~ Mark Twain One master impulse – securing self-approval. For years I tried devious, negative means, […]
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Keeping Score
You hurt me so I pay you back. You retaliate and I counter, revenge for tit for tat, in kind for a taste of medicine. Is this the game of life — maybe love tennis style, but none for real? […]
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Every April, every November, he sets out a list of poetry prompts. Every Tuesday he gives opposites, “Two for Tuesday” he calls it. And every year, twice a year, the prompt is to “Write a love poem” or “Write an […]
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On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. (Alcoholics […]
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You offend me, you seem to be doing this on purpose, intent to rub me wrong, to impose on me, to belittle me, to humiliate me. Have you set out to cause my thoughts to center on you day and […]
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