Tending to Business

Tending to Business

Today, as never before perhaps -- given the genuinely apocalyptic threats unfolding around us -- Americans have an obligation to themselves, their families, and society to quit whining, stop comparing notes on who is more diseased, addicted, or dysfunctional, and just tend to business.

Steve Salerno - SHAM - How the Self-Help Movement Made American Helpless, p. 141

Dick Henthorn

16 Oct 2019

Dysfunctional Behavior

... realize that all dysfunctional behavior comes from an empty place that ... [someone is] desperately trying to cover up ... The dysfunctional behavior you see on the outside is a reflection of the insecurity present on the inside.
(Sandra A. Crowe, Since Strangling Isn't An Option, p. 38-39)
4 June 2014

Narcissism Defined

Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin.
(Promises Of Joy, Proverbs 18:24 (NRSV), p. 197)

Too many people learn to function in their dysfunction. ... You can never change what you tolerate.
(Joel Osteen, Become A Better You, p. 43-4)

... narcissism, the habit of focusing attention on oneself rather than the world of objects and of others, is considered a disorder.
(Thomas Moore, Care Of The Soul, p. 55)

How deep are your thoughts?
(The One Year Book Of Bible Readings, 4 November)
14 March 2014