Monthly Archives: November 2013

Avoiding enmeshment requires that we assume responsibility for ourselves while rejecting responsibility that belongs to others. While we can control our thoughts and actions, we cannot control the thoughts and

Telling the truth requires a life lived without fear, self-delusion, omnipotence, grandiosity, self-seeking and self-pity.  We lie to others and ourselves out of a need for power, a need to

Accepting responsibility requires continual self-examination to make certain that we avoid blaming others or making excuses.  Freedom of choice, demands that we accept the consequences of our choices.  In making

Delaying gratification means putting off instantaneous pleasure to develop our talents so that we can grow emotionally, intellectually and spiritually.  Examples of delaying gratification include eating vegetables before the desert,

The Road Less Traveled combined Dr. Peck’s experiences from his psychiatric practice with mystical interpretations dealt primarily with personal responsibility for growth of love and spirituality. The book’s opening sentence,

The next few weeks I will be reviewing two books by M. Scott Peck, MD. The long article below summarizes Dr. Peck’s life. Those who don’t like to read can

In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Alice asks the Cheshire Cat, “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to walk from here?The Cheshire Cat responds, “That

If words are the most powerful destiny shaper that we control—and they are—then by governing the words that come out of our mouths, we can have a better chance of

Emile Coue, the pioneer of autosuggestion, coined the phrase: Day by day, in every way, I’m getting better and better. I feel healthy. I feel happy. I feel terrific. He

For my daily devotion I read the passage in Matthew about Jesus admonishing his followers to “Be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect.”How can that be? We can’t be

My good friend, William T. Hendricks, Jr., MD, says he helps perfectionists give up their punishing pursuits by telling them, “You have to learn to perfect your tolerance for imperfection.”