Mercy is a source
Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others. Eugene Kennedy
Lives Of Others
I will not try
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God’s business. Eugene H. Peterson
No life of faith
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others. Eugene H. Peterson
The person who is
The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it. Ernest Holmes
What is the ideal
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself. Ernest Becker
Everything seemed meaningless to
Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together. Erlend Loe
Not he who has
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. Erich Fromm
A passionate obsession with
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life Eric Hoffer
It requires something more
It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my … Read more
No more Internet. No
No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. … Read more