They are exhausting. Children. My children. Children in general. Just exhausting. Don’t get me wrong; they are the moon and the sun, and I love them. It’s just that the entire world seems to revolve around them. I am a team player – I try to look out for the family as a whole. Children […]
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Anger How to. How not to. We all sublimate. It’s just something that we as adults do. We sublimate our feelings, our emotions, and our actions. We neither emote nor lash out when we want to. There is a reason for this. There is a reason we all sublimate. We have to. We have to
How to Handle Other’s Anger Don’t take the gifts. This is a story I learned from my dear Buddhist friend, Nagy. I published it, without the commentary back in 2011: A woman’s son left her to become one of the Buddha’s disciples. She confronted the Buddha and showered him with great anger because she was a widow,
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The 77% Weekly The 40/52 weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter 25/40 From Rabbi Brian Spiritual-Religious Self Violence NOTE: This article is similar in theme to a previous article called $2 Angry. I would like to elaborate on one of the phrases I use often in talking with people: spiritual-religious self-violence. What does this term mean? Here’s my
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The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, quick-reading, thought-lingering, spiritual-religious newsletter. Religion-Outside-The-Box (oldrotb.wpengine.com) is a donation supported not-for-profit empowering adults to find and be with (the) God (of their understanding). BONUS ISSUE… From the desk of Rabbi Brian Avoid it… Yesterday on my drive home, I phoned Larry, my best friend. I’m lucky to be able to
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The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, quick-reading, thought-lingering, spiritual-religious newsletter. Religion-Outside-The-Box (oldrotb.wpengine.com) is a donation supported not-for-profit empowering adults to find and be with (the) God (of their understanding). 10/40 From the desk of Rabbi Brian I am angry that _______! Infants lying in their cribs get angry from time to time. I’ve seen this happen
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