Tag: truth
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Seeing Other…..
…..is not something that can be easily done. We easily assume that seeing another is something that we can all do, but I don’t think you can necessarily see another until you have an established and mature sense of identity and self. I was working on a writing project –…
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Unknowing Yourself
I had never thought about ‘unknowing yourself’ as part of the process of getting to know yourself – or even more important being more yourself. It is a concept that I heard from Lori Gottlieb. She says, “But part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself—to let go…
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The Ability to Suspend Judgment….
is not just cognitive. It is also an emotional endeavor. I have written about Suspending Judgement before. Here’s a post about it in the form of Asking Questions. Here’s another post about it as I understood it and wrote about it years ago – Suspend Judgment. Here’s another post about…
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Honest and Spontaneous Expression
I’m really not super good at this. Are you? Do you have the ability to just express what it is you’re feeling right at that moment? I’m not that great at this. I need to learn it. I also need to learn to to express it in a way that…
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Hollywood and Truth
I know you read the title, and you probably think that there is no way that you can find truth in Hollywood. Hollywood is full of actors or fake identities. Hollywood is full of fake people. They pretend and play around so it’s all not true. I wrote a post…
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You’re Not an Expert Just Because You Read Someone’s Opinions
The truth hurts right? I once had someone call me an expert on identity. I quickly corrected them and told them that I am a specialist. I know some things, but I’m definitely no expert. I might know more than some people, but there are definitely many people that know…
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The Identity of Being Right
I have written a post about always being right. Please check out the post just to give you context for this one. Do you consume information to learn the truth or do you consume information to affirm you for being right? It’s a great question. The more you hear that…
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Live Deeply
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself – Anais Nin I don’t even remember where I saw this quote. To be honest with you, this post was sitting in my draft files and I decided to give it a shot. When I first think of this,…
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No Matter How Much of the Story You Have….
……you don’t have the whole story. Inherent in “story” is the idea that you only have a piece of it. Really, you only have one’s perspective of it. They couldn’t have told you all of the details. When someone tells you a story, you get in a few minutes what…
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Truth is Still Truth
I had the unique opportunity to go to Radicalis 2011. It was a great conference. I got to meet a lot of great people, and learned sooooo much. Of all the things though that I learned, I have been thinking and contemplating something that Rick Warren had said in one…
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People Will Believe What They See on a Website
Have you experienced this? I have had people site websites and claim that “it has to be true because it was on a website.” What has happened is the the website gives it credibility. The content becomes more true because it was “searchable” and proclaimed on a website. In a…
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Truth and the Right Time
Speak the truth in love. We’ve all learned that. Honesty is the best policy – was some phrase that came a lot later and I learned it. I might have even taught it. Although I still believe in both of those phrases, I like Truth and the Right Time. Speak…