An egocentric person is overly concerned with their own desires, needs, or interests. Overt selfishness and self-centeredness usually accompanies egocentricity.
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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I got a reminder the other day—I need lots of reminders—by one of my spiritual sisters who, like my myself, had walked the path of brokenness. She said that true freedom comes from simplicity and connection. God alone knows I’ve spent half a lifetime going my own way, striving for this or that, in the
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. — Mother Teresa. High or low, black or white, gay or straight, we are all creations of God and thus connected. I don’t mean just with our besties, or nearest and dearest. The interconnection runs much deeper to
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There is an anecdote told in a book by a sober booze hound called Chuck C, about an hour he spent over coffee with an old Jesuit priest that profoundly changed his view about where to find God. As they sat talking, the old mystic took to silent pondering and began cleaning his well-aged spectacles
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