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The Power of Humility Part III: Fostering Healthy Relationships
One of the keys to being a good spouse, parent or friend is to approach every relationship with humility. And remember: our working definition of humility comes to us from Andrew Murray, who defines it as “not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less often.” If you are to truly practice humility you will need to strive to listen to people when they speak, rather than simply [...]
Tolerating Uncertainty in Our Lives
This past spring, colleges and universities closed alongside the public school systems due to state orders of precaution with the current pandemic flaring across campuses everywhere. If students were staying in their campus dormitory, they were given a week or so to pack any belongings and leave to seek refuge in their home cities. For many in the Class of 2020, their “senior spring” became a page out of [...]
The Power of Humility Part II: Finding Happiness
How can being humble help you find happiness? First, let us revisit our definition of humility, provided to us by Andrew Murray; “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less often.” Oftentimes when we focus on ourselves, whether it be the problems we face, our shortcomings or what we do not have, it leads to discontent. We start focusing only on what we think we should [...]
Understanding Our Emotions: Shame VS Guilt
How do we define the difference between guilt and shame? It’s entirely possible that you don’t see a difference between the two at all. And while their effects might be similar, they are certainly not the same. Guilt is saying, “I’ve done something bad” while shame says “I AM bad.” Right off the bat, it’s easy to see how they might be mistaken as the same thing. However, one [...]
The Power of Humility: Overcoming Anxiety
In the wise words of Andrew Murray, “Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it’s thinking of yourself less often.” Oftentimes, we are anxious about other people’s perceptions of us. This can manifest in a variety of ways, such as a constant worry that making a mistake will cause friends or co-workers to laugh at us, and think less of us overall. We are afraid of people judging us, [...]
Responding to a Moral Outcry: Overcoming Aggression in the Heart
As half of the year has passed, we can sincerely reflect that 2020 has ushered in a new decade of parallel accounts of two urgent crises. Affecting our own nation’s dialogue, we have witnessed widespread agonizing activity in many metropolitan cities that have even unraveled in our own backyard: both the pandemic and the continual flare of racist fractures, ethnic conflicts, social hostilities, peaceful and chaotic protests that bring cultural [...]