Tag: Thought-Life

• May 29, 2010

  Daily Application May 30, 2010 Perspective on Devastating Weakness

  What is your devastating weakness? Not in the abstract, not philosophically — what is yours, specifically, in the way your inner life actually works? Most people have never answered that…

• May 29, 2010

  Daily Application May 29, 2010 Why Do Negative Thoughts Come Back?

  Negative thoughts do not return because you are weak or spiritually deficient. They return because of a pattern — a groove in the mind that was cut long before you…

• May 24, 2010

  Daily Application May 25, 2010 Setting Boundaries

  Most people approach “setting boundaries” as a social skill — something you learn to say to difficult people in order to protect yourself. But that framing misses the deeper truth:…

• May 24, 2010

  Daily Application May 24, 2010 Amends

  Making amends is one of the most misunderstood actions in spiritual growth. Most people either avoid it entirely — because accountability feels like exposure and vulnerability — or they perform…

• 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,…