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Correction Versus Damning
"He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us His holy Spirit."--I Thessalonians 4:8
"We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming--or damning."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 127.
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CORRECTION TRAITS |
DAMNING TRAITS |
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decrease negative |
increase negative |
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asks to come in |
closed |
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bring to light |
suppress |
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encourages testing |
discourages testing |
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expose |
cover |
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light feel |
heavy feel |
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open like a flower |
pressing in like a worm |
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positive attitude |
negative attitude |
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positive fruit |
negative fruit |
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promotes examination |
avoids examination |
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remove |
reinforce |
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reveal negative |
add to negative |
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seeks the light |
afraid of light |
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undermine negative |
strengthen negative |
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uplifting |
oppressive |
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waiting patiently |
insistent |
QUOTATIONS VARIOUS SOURCES
"We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming--or damning."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 127.
"Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that is gone."--William Shakespeare
"If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally--about anything. Yes, anything."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 127
'Damning is the worst form of demanding."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 130
"You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache."--Bernard Baruch
"Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 215
"Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself in thine own counsel."--Ecclesiasticus 30:21
"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."--Baruch Spinoza
"Being right does not give you the right to damn."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 205
"Only God can damn without serving Satan."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace."--Proverbs 11:12
"Damning is when the medicine is worse than the poison."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Damning is when the cure is worse than the illness."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Feeling stupid won't make you smart."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"The whiner equates pain with power."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Feeling bad won't make you good."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Damning is turning the living into things, into the dead."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache."--Bernard M. Baruch
"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself."--Louis Nizer
"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours."--Swedish proverb
"You cannot solve a problem by condemning it."--Wayne Dwyer
"Condemn the sin not the sinner."--Christian saying
"Despise the crime not the criminal."--Japanese saying
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