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Poisoned by Greed
Recently I laid a small circle of poison around a hill of stinging ants. Thinking the tiny granules of poison were food, the ants began to pick them up ...
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Responsibility for Emotions
You're responsible for what you do with your feelings, but you can't help having feelings. Feelings are.
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The Myth of Greener Grass
A man walked into a mental institution one day and was taken on a tour. The tour saw one cell where the man was beating his head against the padded walls. ...
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When Desire Takes Over
Selfishness is a phenomenon of the will, and consists in committing the will to the gratification of the desires. ... Selfishness begins when the will ...
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The Love for a Spouse
The love toward one's spouse burns like a fire and seeks nothing but the person of the spouse. It says: I do not desire what is yours; I desire neither ...
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Realistic Happiness
Who could speak more realistically about the illusion of a yuppie value system than Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who suffered deprivation of all that money ...
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When Desire Becomes Coveting
When does proper desire become coveting? I think we can put the answer down simply: desire becomes sin when it fails to include the love of God or men. ...
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The Meaning of Covetousness
Covetousness is simply craving more of what you have enough of already.
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Creating What Destroys Us
In The Wounded Healer, Henri Nouwen retells a tale from ancient India: Four royal brothers decided each to master a special ability. Time went by, and ...
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