 | Bob Phillips - 1993 - 372 pàgines
...important spiritual and central ones — as long as it prolongs one's well-being. Alexander Solzhenitsyn The truth that many people never understand, until...proportion to your fear of being hurt Thomas Merton SUICIDE More people commit suicide with a fork than with a gun. The man who, in a fit of melancholy,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pàgines
...Food enough for a week. But I'll be darned if I know how the helican. MERTON Thomas 1915-1968 7330 al by the state pending good behavlour. 6686 (of Lillian...(on reaching the age of 50) Ballads and babies. Th proportlon to your fear of being hurt. 7331 Vlolence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only... | |
 | Kristine M. Rankka - 1998 - 276 pàgines
...some leveL ln recalling the events surrounding the death of his father, Thomas Merton wrote: 1ndeed, the truth that many people never understand until it is too late, is thai the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you sufter, because smaller and more insignificant... | |
 | Benjamin Darling - 2002 - 198 pàgines
...American Prot!erh There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. — Alfred Hiteheoek The more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer,...proportion to your fear of being hurt. — Thomas Maton There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. — John Chunon... | |
 | Dwight Longenecker - 2002 - 226 pàgines
...we try to avoid the bad sort of reality, we automatically miss the good as well. Thomas Merton says: The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you...and more insignificant things begin to torture you . . . the one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most: and his suffering... | |
 | Richard Carlson, Benjamin Shield - 2011 - 194 pàgines
...work?" Instead, why not ask, "What if I succeed?" You may be pleasantly surprised by your answers. The truth that many people never understand, until...proportion to your fear of being hurt. — Thomas Mcrton £X£RCIS£ What do / Fear? In your journal, answer the following questions: What do I fear... | |
 | Charles Manz - 2003 - 255 pàgines
...2002) extends this work by examining the practical significance of EQ for leadership effectiveness. \ow The more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer...insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion toyour fear of being hurt. —Thomas MertorP 1 (must confess that the ideas in this chapter were the... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 pàgines
...1913-1960 ~ "Neither Victims Nor Executioners," The Worlds of Existentialism, Maurice Friedman, ed., 1964 The truth that many people never understand, until...suffering the more you suffer because smaller and insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. ~ Thomas Merton,... | |
 | Neilsons & D - 2008 - 322 pàgines
...acceptance is usually measured by its severity, usefulness, whether it is deserving, chosen, or wanted. "The truth that many people never understand, until...proportion to your fear of being hurt." - Thomas Merton In a religious sense, suffering is a consequence of the original sin. It could be applied as a self-accepting... | |
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Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. 