Tag: Fear

• June 8, 2011

  TLC Application 06|08|2011 “Forming Inappropriate…Emotional Attachments”

  There is a particular form of emotional suffering that is almost entirely self-generated: attaching strong feelings to situations that have not yet been verified as real. You conclude someone is…

• June 5, 2011

  TLC Application 06|05|2011 “Turning Time Into Our Friend”

  For the first portion of most people’s lives, time feels like a friend — there is plenty of it ahead, the future is open, and the imagination runs forward with…

• June 4, 2011

  TLC Application 06|04|2011 “Self-Fulfilling Prophecy”

  The term “self-fulfilling prophecy” is usually applied to failure — to the pattern of expecting things to go wrong and then having them go wrong. But the same principle works…

• June 3, 2011

  TLC Application 06|03|2011 “Focus On Your Strengths”

  Most people trying to grow spend the majority of their inner energy focused on their weaknesses. They are aware of their flaws, concerned about their limitations, and quietly convinced that…

• May 16, 2010

  Daily Application May 16, 2010 Notes on Bankruptcy

  There is a form of bankruptcy that has nothing to do with finances. It is the spiritual bankruptcy that precedes genuine surrender — the moment when a person’s internal resources,…