Sentences with phrase «about compassion rather»

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If you've already procrastinated, you're more likely to get started on time going forward if you show yourself some compassion for your previous slacking rather than beating yourself up about it.

Divine kenosis, she insists, does not mean that divine power is sacrificed but rather that it is relocated in a «relational love» that brings about forgiveness and awakens an ethic of care and compassion for others.

As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.

JW — this article is not about what happens AFTER death, but rather how we as humans need to respond in compassion, love and SERVICE to those who are in the process of dying.

While you might have compassion for them, realizing that they might be very lonely, you also need to be aware of the fact that, if they were listening to themselves and taking responsibility for their own feelings, and if they cared about others rather than just trying to get attention, they wouldn't be talking on and on without even a breath where you could possibly get in a word edgewise.

This daily communion with the herbs taught me something profound about their functionality - not strictly to arouse the physical desire to copulate, but rather to empower passion, awaken compassion, strengthen connection with both people and our own life's path.

Because Miles is diagnosed as being in a «minimally conscious state» rather than a «persistent vegetative state,» there is no legal way to bring about his death, a bewildering paradox that Spinney navigates with compassion and wisdom.