Day 479 – True vulnerability…

Day 479 – True vulnerability…
Transparency and peace about personal humiliation is the highest form of vulnerability and honesty.

Day 479 – True vulnerability…
Transparency and peace about personal humiliation is the highest form of vulnerability and honesty.
It’s perfectly logical to think that if we appease everybody, we all win. But both history and profound spiritual morality show us that appeasement never works. Why? Appeasement emerges from self-interest. It’s not about other parties being happy. It’s about the appeaser being happy…such a model for collective peace and prosperity can never work.
Despite the horrible tragedies in life and the situations where we’re constrained to a disposition of helplessness, we’re given multiple warnings in this world…
For the past few weeks, grocery runs have been with the luxury of a bus chauffeur.
But, this came to an end today as I entered a full bus.
A sign of standard life returning a little prematurely perhaps…
It’s incredible that two people, both severely wounded by identical traumas, brought to a place of despair and longing, can have opposite reactions to the Gospel…
With phones and internet, there is now an abundance of knowledge at our finger tips so that we are without excuse – so why do mistakes in organisations recur? Blame Culture. Blame Culture focuses on someone to blame, shame, and possibly punish in order to balance the scales. Potentially, short term needs are met and everyone continues their work, but the same mistakes will re-emerge; sometimes in a different form making it increasingly difficult to find a solution if the blame culture mechanic is in action…
Being charitable when no one is able to congratulate or measure such a gesture is a strong sign of goodness.