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Kylie wrote this post based on things she learned at an Arbinger workshop.
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Whatever you "do" on the surface, people respond to who you are "being" when you are doing it.
When I see the truth, I feel care and compassion. Feeling care and compassion, I have recovered my sense of what others need. I see things I can do. Things I should do. Things I desire to do.
Cry for another's pain. Realize a wrong and apologize. Suffer a wrong and don't require apology. I no longer exaggerate their faults and my virtue. They are no longer objects of blame. I am ceasing to blame others because it is the right thing to do for them--not because of what I want them to do for me.
I understand that others carry burdens I do not see--including burdens I have placed on them by my own prior self-betrayals.
Seeing now with compassion, my view of others changes whether they change or not.
"Herein lies my freedom: The world I encounter springs from my own soul. Herein lies my fate: Which world will spring from me?"
The power to choose is within me. I choose every minute, every day. Therein lies my hope.
-guest post by kylie, from www.spencerandkylie.blogspot.com
2 comments:
I think I need to start by picking just one of these things and mastering it.
LOVE that first quote. And the line, "Which world will spring from me?" You are fabulous.
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