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What if conflicts at home, conflicts at work, and conflicts in the world stem from the same root cause? And what if individually and collectively we systematically misunderstand that cause, and unwittingly perpetuate the very problems we think we are trying to solve? Through an intriguing... read more
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“"You can't change the people around you but, you can change the way you think of them and how you react."”
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Generally speaking, we respond to others’ way of being toward us rather than to their behavior. Which is to say that our children respond more to how we’re regarding them than they do to our particular words or actions.
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“when I betray myself, others’ faults become immediately inflated in my heart and mind. I begin to ‘horribilize’ others. That is, I begin to make them out to be worse than they really are. And I do this because the worse they are, the more justified I feel.
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“As painful as it is to receive contempt from another, it is more debilitating by far to be filled with contempt for another.
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when our hearts are at war, we can’t see clearly. We give ourselves the best opportunity to make clear-minded decisions only to the extent that our hearts are at peace.”
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“The deepest way in which we are right or wrong,” he continued, “is in our way of being toward others. I can be right on the surface—in my behavior or positions—while being entirely mistaken beneath, in my way of being.
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COLLUSION: A conflict where the parties are inviting the very things they’re fighting against
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“The secret of Saladin’s success in war,” Yusuf answered, “was that his heart was at peace.”
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LESSON 1 Most time and effort should be spent at the lower levels of the pyramid.
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LESSON 3 Ultimately, my effectiveness at each level of the pyramid depends on the deepest level of the pyramid—my way of being.
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LESSON 2 The solution to a problem at one level of the pyramid is always below that level of the pyramid.
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"I'm not going!" The teenage girl's shriek pulled everyone's attention to her.
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