convinces me that so long as you embrace love‚ there is nothing impossible! And love seems to be another ¡°out-of-day¡° thing in today¡¯s material life. However‚ I become more and more involved with love as Morrie¡¯s story goes on. Love for ourselves makes us feel great. As to Morrie‚ he considers that to watch his body slowly wilt away to nothing is Wonderful‚ ¡°because of all the time I get to say goodbye.¡± If not for love‚ how can so pathetic thing become luck? We are human beings‚ not Saint
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for the fear of rejection by others or for the fear of disappointing ourselves‚ we are used to being disguised. Often‚ we are simply afraid to find out who we really are. But not always are we disguised or afraid. Sometimes we simply go through life thinking we are something that we are not. We mistake the identity that we have created for ourselves for our real soul. And this is a big challenge on the journey of finding ourselves: not to be deceived by what seems to be our personality on the surface
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the shadow side of ourselves and to welcome it to join us. Our shadow side is those aspects of our personalities and those qualities that we haven’t yet fully come to terms with. We may want to accept our partner‚ but it’s easier said than done to accept our partner the way they are if we haven’t done our own work to know ourselves well. We run into difficulty in the process of trying to accept another because we can never accept in anybody what we haven’t accepted in ourselves. When there is fear
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As we grow older we discover new things about ourselves and how we identify ourselves‚ through the experiences we face in our lives. Our personality is like a house in the process of building‚ we draw the plan of who we aspire to be‚ we make alterations along the way but the bricks keep piling up. Identity formation is defined as the combination of personal‚ social and cultural experiences that combine to form an individual’s identity. Identity is not static; it is the result of continuous interaction
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N. Lagunas February 20‚ 2014 Social Psychology Social Comparison Theory We often do not realize we compare ourselves to those around us weather it is at work‚ school‚ or at the grocery store. Let’s say you go grocery shopping at Food 4 Less‚ and there is a person in front of you and the cashier tells him the amount due and asks him if he would like to donate to the Children’s Memorial Hospital‚ the man says no thank you and leaves. You are next in line‚ and now it is your turn to
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and Eve’s interactions with the serpent wasn’t prevented by God. It happened‚ and we paid the price for. So in what way can we justify God’s actions for allowing us to fall from grace? Many would argue that this was to allow us to build ourselves up; to prove ourselves. And yet‚ the serpent was still able to get into our minds. It was able to excite the senses into knowledge that
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we may find ourselves. Survival to the Traveling Symphony means
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categorization * People have a strong tendency to mentally organize things and people (including themselves) into categories To the extent that we associate ourselves with groups (i.e. categorize ourselves)‚we have social identities * Social identities (via our group memberships) are important aspects of how we define ourselves Social Identity Theory Social identities also dictate our perceptions of members of our “in-groups” as… * Similar to us‚ at least on the dimension that defines
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The most thought provoking read from the selection was “Crick Crack” by Merle Collins. Interweaved within her poem are lessons- from those lessons the reader is afforded the opportunity to learn from Collins. Collins alludes to the history of Africa in the final stanza of her poem with “until lions have their own historians‚ they say‚ tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter.” This is true in a since that when a person does not know their history they are targets of misinformation. Often we
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constant Identity and belonging are inter-related; they go like peas in a pod. The groups we choose to belong to and the ways we connect with others help to form our own identity. Together‚ these issues go to the heart of who we are and how we present ourselves to the world. One human quality that we all share‚ despite our individual identities‚ is the need to belong. It is a paradox that we long to be free‚ to be who we truly are and yet we yearn to belong to some kind of community. There is no real obligation
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