An egocentric person is overly concerned with their own desires, needs, or interests. Overt selfishness and self-centeredness in thought and behavior usually accompanies egocentricity.
Messed up badly, broken again Sometimes we live, sometimes we die, sometimes we cry. — Van Morrison. I come from a long line of hot-blooded Irish men with extremely short fuses. Both my father and his father before him were fine and decent good-hearted men, but boy could they blow! Tsunamis of rage could erupt […]
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Rumi. Like it or not, we nearly all get to take a reluctant stroll down the boulevard of broken dreams. If you, like me, have stumbled into this unwelcome place, comrades, take heart, it might just be the best thing that has ever happened to
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“Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.” – Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Recently, the little place I had been renting for many years got sold out from under me. Then, within days, I fell victim to a phone banking scam and all my limited saving disappeared in an instant. The very next day my old
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves. ― Leo Tolstoy. As always with an out-there misfit mystic like Tolstoy, there is a plenty to ponder in the quote above. There is a quintessential truth in his wisdom no matter where, when, or who receives it. On the back
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