Quotes About Response

Of course I know, professionally, that the more entrenched and reactive we are about an issue, the more we need to investigate our responses.

the "action" part of compassion wasn't making things better or fixing,

participants who thought they were not susceptible or vulnerable to deceptive advertising were, in fact, the most vulnerable. The researchers' explanation for this phenomenon says it all: "Far from being an effective shield, the illusion of invulnerability undermines the very response that would have supplied genuine protection.

The prerequisite for real empathy is compassion. We can only respond empathically if we are willing to be present to someone's pain.

Far from being an effective shield, the illusion of invulnerability undermines the very response that would have supplied genuine protection.

Dread occurs frequently in response to high-probability negative events; its magnitude increases as the dreaded event draws nearer.

it is less about who people are, and more about how they behave and show up in difficult situations. Fear is the emotion at the center of that list of problematic behaviors

Again, no matter what you do, you can't control other people's responses.

So, when we say that anxiety can be both a state and a trait, it means that some of us feel anxious mainly in response to certain situations, while some of us can be naturally more predisposed to anxiety than others.

Researchers found that labeling the emotion as excitement seems to hinge on interpreting the bodily sensations as positive. The labels are important because they help us know what to do next.

For anxiety and dread, the threat is in the future. For fear, the threat is now—in the present. Fear is a negative, short-lasting, high-alert emotion in response to a perceived threat, and, like anxiety, it can be measured as a state or trait.

Our fight or flight strategies are effective for survival, not for reasoning or connection

think and talk and act rather than react,

Jinými slovy ?e?eno, nová mluslimská geopolitika z poloviny devadesátých let 20. století nebyla reakcí na západní zasahování, nýbrž na ne?innost tvá?í v tvá? genocid? a etnickým ?istkám [v bývalé Jugoslávii].

Jesus responded that He did not come to discuss the Law nor to challenge the Roman Empire. He had come to herald the Good News that the Really Real is love and to invite men and women to a joyous response to that love. Sober, hard-headed, realistic critics simply shook their heads. "Why doesn't He address the critical questions?

he progressed not by always making right decisions but by responding appropriately to wrong ones.

A poet has written, "The desire to feel loved is the last illusion: let it go and you will be free." Just as the sunrise of faith requires the sunset of our former unbelief, so the dawn of trust requires letting go of our craving spiritual consolations and tangible reassurances. Trust at the mercy of the response it receives is a bogus trust.

Individuals who can perform under pressure appraise the criticism as information that can help them. In

The movement from loneliness to solitude should lead to a gradual conversion from an anxious reaction to a loving response. — Henri J. M. Nouwen, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life ( Doubleday, 1975)

A complainer is hard to live with, and very few people know how to respond to the complaints made by a self-rejecting person. The tragedy is that, often, the complaint, once expressed, leads to that which is most feared: further rejection.

In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.

Where does God lead us as a people?" This question requires that we pay careful attention to God's guidance in our life together, and that together we search for a creative response to the way we have heard God's voice in our midst.

Without reading the word, silence becomes stale, and without silence, the word loses its re-creative power. The word leads to silence and silence to the word. The word is born in silence, and silence is the deepest response to the word.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.