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Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World
Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World by Barbara Ehrenreich Jenni Murray salutes a long-overdue demolition of the suggestion that positive thinking is the answer to all our problems The Observer, Sunday 10 January 2010 Every so often a book appears that so chimes with your own thinking, yet flies so […]
Victim Mentality: How to break out of it
How to Break Out of a Victim Mentality: 7 Powerful Tips by HENRIK EDBERG. ¢â‚¬Å“If it ¢â‚¬â„¢s never our fault, we can ¢â‚¬â„¢t take responsibility for it. If we can ¢â‚¬â„¢t take responsibility for it, we ¢â‚¬â„¢ll always be its victim. ¢â‚¬ Richard Bach ¢â‚¬Å“Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure […]
Questions I’ve been asked as a counselor (about sex)
Questions I’ve been asked as a counselor (how would you respond?): 1. ‘Rowland, I have a very high libido, my (pastor) husband has none! So I have a date with Jesus every Thursday morning (when my husband’s out), run the bath, light a candle, sing worship-songs and pleasure myself. Only Jesus or my husband is […]
WORDS ABOUT SPEECH
Words, Words, Words…….Quotes Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. –Pearl Strachan Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is. –Publilius Syrus Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ¢â‚¬“Jesus Christ Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any […]
Entitlement – the cure
I would like to take a minute to share with you one of the most important lessons I have learned in my life to date. The day was July 3rd, 2003 at approximately 3pm and I was working as a shift supervisor, freshly graduated with my bachelor degree in business management and confident that I […]
Humility and Entitlement
The Paradox of Humility In an age of narcissism and entitlement, humility may be the antidote we need. Now if we can just identify what it is. By Everett L. Worthington, Jr. For years, every morning at five a.m. my mother-in-law, Rena Canipe, would crawl out of bed and awaken her husband Clyde. Donning track […]
Christmas Gifts – a Better Way
This “Advent Conspiracy” video shows how by changing our spending habits at Christmas can have a huge impact on Third World people and their need of clean drinking water. Instead of buying Christmas gifts for our loved ones that they don’t really need, we can divert the money we would have spent to far needier […]
Courage, Not Fear
By Harry T. Cook 8/20/10 America has been stampeded by terror down a well-rutted road, and it seems almost impossible now to turn back the madding crowd. If those hurtling down it only knew: that road’s end is a desolation of emotional and intellectual slavery. We are told that our nation is waging a war […]
THE ‘HUMAN CAMERA’ – AMAZING!
THIS MAN IS KNOWN AS THE “HUMAN CAMERA” If you have never seen this before, you are in for a treat. Turn up the sound, click on the link below, and be prepared to be blown away. http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=0k4lsi1dql
Death: this liberal pastor’s not ‘going home to Jesus’
I am a debtor to death. It furnished work to me for almost half a century: in its approach, in its advent and in its aftermath. I am no stranger to many of its causes and forms. Though I have never seen an execution or a murder or a battlefield death, many is the time […]
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