Look For Competence Not Claims.

A Man Who Took Great Pride In His Lawn Found Himself With A Large Crop Of Dandelions. He Tried Every Method He Knew To Get Rid Of Them. Still They Plagued Him. Finally He Wrote The Department Of Agriculture. He Enumerated All The Things He Had Tried And Closed His Letter With The Question: "what Shall I Do Now?" In Due Course The Reply Came: "we Suggest You Learn To Love Them."

Let’s Suppose That Rain Washes Out A Picnic. Who Is Feeling Negative? The Rain? Or You? What’s Causing The Negative Feeling? The Rain Or Your Reaction? When You Bump Your Knee Against A Table, The Table’s Fine. It’s Busy Being What It Was Made To Be – A Table. The Pain Is In Your Knee, Not In The Table. The Mystics Keep Trying To Tell Us That Reality Is All Right. Reality Is Not Problematic. Problems Exist Only In The Human Mind. We Might Add: In The Stupid, Sleeping Human Mind.

Look For Competence Not Claims.

Everybody Was Talking About The Religious Man Who Committed Suicide. While No One In The Monastery Approved Of The Man's Action, Some Say They Admired His Faith. Faith?" Said The Master. He Had The Courage Of His Convictions, Didn't He?" That Was Fanaticism, Not Faith. Faith Demands A Greater Courage Still: To Reexamine One's Convictions And Reject Them If They Do Not Fit The Facts.

Sin Is A Refusal To Grow, A Refusal To Love, A Refusal To Get Committed, To Be Concerned, And To Take Risks.