compassion
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How to Be More Non-Judgmental
Today we are exploring judgmentalism and what can be done about it. Judgmentalism, as in: This must be distinguished from discernment, which enables us to be fair and reasonable in distinguishing between what is genuinely medicine and what is genuinely poison, what is truly helpful and what is truly harmful, who is honestly a friend…
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We begin with the book by Fran Hawthorne entitled, The Overloaded Liberal: Shopping, Investing, Parenting, and Other Daily Dilemmas in an Age of Political Activism. She starts out with some humor shtick that sounds a whole lot like Jeff Foxworthy: You might be an overloaded liberal if … you hide the snack you brought to…
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On Forgiveness. What is it? Why is it important? How do I forgive others? How do I forgive myself? Let’s find out. Begin with a poem by Jeredith Merrin, entitled “Family Reunion”: The divorced mother and her divorcing daughter. The about-to-be ex-son-in-law and the ex-husband’s adopted son. The divorcing daughter’s child, who is the step-nephew…
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As Unitarian Universalists, we rally around a certain religious vision. That vision is of people called into greater compassion and hope–you and me, experiencing no less than a fundamental change of perception so that our sense of self expands beyond the circle of our closest intimates and each of us knows finally, beyond a shadow…
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One of my personal passions which you may or may not know about is yoga. The journey of any given yoga class from beginning to end is, first of all, unrolling my 68 inches long and 24 inches wide mat on the floor and getting on it, and this will become the center of my…
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