Search results for “against self righteousness”
Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to His Abusive and Narcissistic Father
“It is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.”
Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to Change, and the Key to True Personal Growth
“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
Buddhist Economics: How to Start Prioritizing People Over Products and Creativity Over Consumption
“Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.”
The Backfire Effect: The Psychology of Why We Have a Hard Time Changing Our Minds
How the disconnect between information and insight explains our dangerous self-righteousness.
March 28, 1941: Virginia Woolf’s Suicide Letter and Its Cruel Misinterpretation in the Media
A humbling reminder that self-righteousness is the enemy of compassion and judging another human being’s private struggle is a disgrace to our own humanity.
How Lewis Carroll’s Rules of Letter-Writing Can Make Email More Civil and Digital Communication Kinder
“If your friend makes a severe remark, either leave it unnoticed, or make your reply distinctly less severe.”
Lucinda Williams on Compassion
“You do not know what wars are going on down there, where the spirit meets the bone.”
The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on Growing Old, the Perils of Success, and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart
“If you can fall in love again and again… if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical… you’ve got it half licked.”
Dare to Disturb the Universe: Madeleine L’Engle on Creativity, Censorship, Writing, and the Duty of Children’s Books
“We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we’ll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.”
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