Tag: Relationships

• June 29, 2011

  How the World Gets Small

  Have you ever noticed how quickly your whole world can shrink to the size of your current problem? One financial worry, one difficult relationship, one piece of bad news —…

• June 28, 2011

  What Is the Hole in the Doughnut?

  There is a feeling that most of us know but few of us can name: the sense that you are being left out, overlooked, forgotten, or pushed to the margins…

• June 27, 2011

  How Self-Righteousness Operates

  Of all the spiritual obstacles that can block a person’s growth, self-righteousness may be the most deceptive — because it wears the costume of confidence and conviction. It looks, from…

• June 25, 2011

  What the Unaided Will Cannot Do

  One of the most counterintuitive discoveries a person can make is that self-confidence — the thing we are told to build more of, to protect, to project — can actually…

• June 21, 2011

  When Waiting for the Worst Becomes a Way of Life

  Have you ever noticed that just when things seem to be going well, something inside you starts waiting for it to fall apart? A relationship is good and you think,…