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Fear and Kindness
Replied Apr. 6, 2009
Fear and Kindness
Replied Apr. 3, 2009
Fear and Kindness
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Started this discussion. Last reply by CJ Scarlet Apr. 6, 2009.
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I try to treat people from other countries and cultures with
as much kindness, respect, and dignity as I do to people I grew up with. It saddens me when people hate people just because they are from somewhere "foreign" to their life experience. I th…
Wow. Very profound and self-aware, Michael. I love the quote from Eliot; reminds me of a Buddhist imperative: rather than trying to cover the world with leather to protect yourself, simply bind your own feet (protect your own mind). Many people tend…
I think your approach is very positive and pragmatic After surveying the injustice and destruction,
mostly metaphorically, of his age (post world war 1 England and Europe). British poet T. S. Eliot
states in final stanza of "The Wasteland:" "Shall I…
I believe you are right, Michael, about all of it. There is much fear and negativity in the world, and it is the small kind and positive acts and interactions one person has with another that keep this crazy world from flying apart. And whether or n…
Scarlett, this is a wonderful poem. I was thinking that my discussion on fear and joy may have sounded a little too
negative and general. In spite of the many, many negatives, injustices, inequalities, and fear in the world- and particularly in Amer…
Thought this would be a good place for this poem, sent in my Abe Knaster:
Let the rain come and wash away
the ancient grudges, the bitter hatreds
held and nurtured over generations.
Let the rain wash away the memory
of the hurt, the neglect.
Then l…
As a culture, we seem to be swept ever so often into a state of panic. Whether it be "the financial meltdown," terrorists, new variants of diseases, immigrants, druglords, the new government...The list is endless. Sure they might be a kernel of trut…
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- Tell us a little about yourself! Where you're from, what you do, what you care about.
- From Boston, I'm a software headhunter and an aspiring career life coach (transferring from CTI ti ILCT), worked as therapist in my twenties, have own sw placement business aclled Advancement Alternatives Inc, Have Masters in Psychology from University of Chivago- and 2 years of additional graduate creduits from variety of schools including 6 courses at Harvard, looking to integrate my placement business (mostly IT) with career/life coaching, trained in client centered therepay and CBT, good writer, likes all kinds of liberal arts and social scince thinking with a leftinst, humanistic viewpoint but can also be pragmatic, 3 recent years of weekly weekly group counselling for SMART recover (a CBT based, highly effecgtive, alternative ro 12 step program), great results as a therapest an d the small amount of coaching I've done, 9/11- and a couple subsequent trips to Europe-changed me from mr-first money motivated enterpreneur back to an idealistic humanist. near expert in world cinema and currently reading modern philosophy (exitentialism, post structuralism, and German idealism), am being coached and in psychotherapy (see these things as means to growth not stigmatizing and or for social adjustment), pessismistic for world survival unless their is a radical shift in values and attitudes (from me two to worldcentric- term used by new age philosopher Ken Wilder. Ecstatic about Obama and his election, think in some ways the recent financial meltdown (not individual and family hardship, but maybe but a big whole in 30 years of graad based, CEO worship, tricle down Reagonomics- i might be dreaming but it's a start, also have been involved in non devotional meditation, on and off for 30 years and some yoga- this is enough probaly too much
- How did you hear about the Kindness Cure?
- googled for Rhondha's website book, and think Rhondha, as usual, is right on
- Tell us about an act of kindness that transformed your life? (you could have seen, or done, or had done to you)
- When an HR manager in the 80's helped 8 immigrants get their green cards, free coaching and recent involvement in Rope for Hope- organization to help out of work people, trying to be nice and polite to people (even in business), my parents
are kind- my kindness engenders kindness in others- various people along the way have been kind to me, my business support network
Comment Wall (5 comments)
- At 11:58pm on November 1, 2009,
Michael C. Dewey said…
- At 10:28pm on May 9, 2009,
Michael C. Dewey said…
- At 6:56am on April 20, 2009,
Michael C. Dewey said…
- (Get ready for some tear drops for these kids voices are digging deep into peoples's souls)
- At 8:21am on April 16, 2009,
Michael C. Dewey said…
- Great Comment on my page. You are very in-tune with the slime's/times oozing out of the MSM. I don't have expended cable anymore so I am no longer a junkie of the news. Don't miss the same 15 minute run around at all. Billo is what I call him too and its said that Hannity rhymes with Humanity for he has no clue...
(I just tried to add you as a Friend here but I am over my ning 100 limit. It shouldn't stop you though.
- At 8:12pm on March 28, 2009,
CJ Scarlet said…
- Wow, Michael! You have a seriously impressive background and a fascinating lis of interests. Thanks so much for joining us on the Kindness Cure. People who make their living making other people happy are especially welcome here. So tell me more about your life coaching businesses. What is your niche? My oldest son lives in Boston now. I'm going to be there in May to see the Dalai Lama. Can't wait! Check back with us often to see our latest videos and share your kindness stories. Hope your weekend is wonderful! CJ Scarlet
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