Personal growth: Confucius – look within for the truth April 24, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal growth.Tags: Confucius, David Hinton, happiness, life, personal development, personal growth, philosophy, self-improvement
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By Dennis Mellersh
As wisdom writers both ancient and modern have told us, if we want to engage in universal personal improvement, we should start with ourselves – it is the path to understanding others.
And let us not give advice to others until we have thoroughly examined ourselves and taken steps to correct our own personal shortcomings.
Confucius succinctly reminds of these truths in The Analects:
“A person’s faults are all of a piece. Recognizing your faults is a way of understanding humanity.”*
“Adept Kung was forever comparing and criticizing people. The master said, ‘To have time for such things, Kung must have already perfected himself completely. As for me, I am not so lucky.’” *
* Confucius, The Analects, translated by David Hinton in his book The Four Chinese Classics
Personal growth: Why massive change takes time April 11, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal growth.Tags: achieving goals, creating habits, eliminating bad habits, life, personal improvement, philosophy, self-actualization, spirituality
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By Dennis Mellersh
If you’re discouraged with your rate of progress with self-actualization, remind yourself that personal development is a marathon, not a hundred-yard dash.
It requires making many changes over time in how we think and operate; and much thought and mental work.
Changing constant negative thinking is an example.
It is a habit.
And we can’t get rid of a bad habit, or successfully create a new good habit, just by willing it.
Habits, are the result of practise and repetition; and will not be undone (bad habit) or created (good habit) without repetition.
Either repeatedly not doing, or repeatedly doing, or both.
We can commit right now, today, to be willing to make what Tony Robbins describes as “massive change” in our lives.
But actually making the change we want will demand many small steps is a lengthy journey.
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