Sentences with phrase «truly understand the other person»

Yet with most interactions, my most powerful online and offline tool is to slow things down and truly understand the other person's point of view.

Couples counseling encourages reaching an acceptance of one another through compassion and empathy, so you both come to truly understand the other person and become able to share your own feelings in depth.

Not exact matches

Once you understand what's truly going on on the other side of the fence, and have the other person's needs in mind, the listening has one overarching theme: How can I help the other person?

The discussion centered on different perspectives on the Iraq War, but the takeaway was, in order to truly understand others, people need to feel what actions have caused them to feel.

The discussion centered on different perspectives on the War On Iraq, but the takeaway was, in order to truly understand others, people need to feel what actions have caused them to feel.

Instead of focusing on what you're going to say next, tune in to the other person and listen carefully — with the goal to truly understand their problem.

«This book helps me appreciate that the successful entrepreneur understands other people with complementary skills are needed to make your business truly successful.

Listen Humble themselves (that is, don't control the situation, and don't assume they understand or perceive the situation perfectly) Identify how they contributed to the situation (whether consciously or unconsciously, directly or indirectly) Take responsibility Apologise Allow the other person to express what they want done (and do it, if it is within the pastor's ability, and truly helpful) Support the other person's decisions, even if the pastor disagree with them Empower the other person at every step Part friends if possible, and at peace, if at all possible (and never go to court — Jesus and Paul call this dangerous and ridiculous, respectively)

So we modify our answer: a school is truly theological to the extent that it is a community of persons seeking to understand God, and all else in relation to God, by studying other matters that are believed to lead to that understanding.

So we modified our characterization of a theological school: It is, I suggested, a community of persons trying to understand God more truly by way of studying some other thing or things whose study is supposed to enhance our understanding of God.

In Love» s Knowledge and elsewhere Nussbaum uses the fiction of Proust, Henry James, Dickens, and others to buttress her claim that the emotions are not necessarily opposed to reason» that, in fact, a truly rational person will experience certain emotions as the consequence of proper understanding.

I was telling a few people the other day that what really gives me hope is that when straight, white, Christian males who had the opportunity to know only privelegde, really truly understand — not just ally with but genuinely empathize with — people who have been persecuted.

So once again... if you deny that you engage in this basic human practice of accusing, condemning, and scapegoating others... if you think that the people you call «monsters» and «heretics» truly are guilty of everything you accuse them of... if you think that some people truly deserve to burn in hell for all eternity... if you think that war is righteous and good and we need to bomb some groups of evil people off the face of the planet... then you are calling God a liar, and you have not understood the first thing about God and what He taught through Jesus (cf. 1 John 4:7 - 11).

When we truly listen to each other with a heart to understand, it changes the dialogue and, hopefully, reminds us that they are people God created to be welcomed and loved into the family of Christ.

If he understands the Christ as the Word, truly liberating and victorious over the powers that separate and estrange persons from each other and from God, he has a source to retrieve.

But once again, a person can only understand that by being truly open to knowing God and can only know God by getting the focus off self and others and putting it on God who we were created for the pleasure of, who we were created to worship.

On the one hand I understand how she could be in denial because facing the death of your child must be beyond horrible, on the other hand there are people who truly believe that all decisions and circumstances in their life are attributable to a higher power and therefore they take responsibility for nothing.

That's what we want kids to really understand - embrace who they are, not push down the beliefs they have for other people, because at the end of the day, if they're really truly their friends, they'll support them in the things that they believe in.

'' [Cumbo] truly understands that we build up our city by building up our people, and one of the ways we do that is through art,» said McCray, who joined Jeffries, Clark, Sen. Chuck Shumer, State Assemblyman Walter Mosley, Public Advocate Letitia James, City Comptroller Scott Stringer and Borough President Eric Adams, among others, in praising the new councilwoman.

When I first started explaining the Healthy You Diet, the people I shared it with understood the power of the program and truly believed it would work for them — even if every other diet they tried had let them down.

Although we provide many tools to help single meet each other for a romantic purpose, we understand that ultimately God's will and time is what truly brings two people together.»

Share your individuality showing other people what you like or dislake and what you are interested in, and you will find people who truly understand and appreciate your ways and your outlook on life.

There is something very important about teachers connecting with other teachers since very few people truly understand what we go through as teachers during the school year.

But as much as I can't truly understand the horrors of slavery from the African - American perspective, neither can I understand thinking of other people as sub-human.

On the other hand, it doesn't take too much reading on these boards to find people who love and truly understand the breed, and all the responsibilities that go along with owning them.

The game simply helps people understand how Wii U truly differentiates itself from other consoles.

Plenty of people advertise resume writing on Craigslist or other online sites, but that doesn't mean they have the right qualifications or truly understand the strategies that make a resume successful.

Spigarelli recommends that you repeat the important things that the other person is saying to show you're truly listening: «I understand it takes longer than 15 minutes to fix the cable.

Groups like this can provide a good forum for voicing frustrations and meeting other people who can truly understand your circumstances and feelings.

Share your experiences with others and work with people who truly understand what you're going through.

If we want others, especially young people, to understand what is important, we must first determine what those things truly are.