Life on Planet Earth on Emotional Stuffing

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Lori Gottlieb
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- Avoidance
- Emotional Stuffing
Pushing aside emotions only makes them stronger.
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Louisa May Alcott
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"I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo, but I have learned not to show it; and I still hope to learn not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do so."
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Tennessee Williams
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- Avoidance
- Emotional Stuffing
“Laws of silence don't work.... When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire...
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Catching up to the Pain
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Shauna Niequist
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I learned a long time ago that if I hustle fast enough, the emptiness will never catch up with me. First I outran it by traveling and dancing and drinking two-for-one whiskey sours at Calypso on State...
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Juvenile Emotions
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Leonard Sweet
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- Emotions
What Jesus also didn’t do was wear his emotions on his sleeve. I brought my kids up with a mantra: Don’t litter your food; don’t litter your mood. In Edward Docxs Self Help, one of the most interestin...
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Looking to Be Filled In All the Wrong Places
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Ashley Hales
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The more I use stuff to fill up my hungers, the more distance I put between God and myself. And as I continue to fill up my infinite hungers with finite things (when I run through the Starbucks drive-...
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Margaret Tate
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- Emotions
- Invulnerability
“What am I allergic to? “Pine nuts. And the full spectrum of human emotion.”
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Holding on to the Awe
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Paul David Tripp
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- Satisfaction
Awesome stuff never satisfies. Nothing in the entire physical, created world can give rest, peace, identity, meaning, purpose, or lasting contentment to your awe-craving heart. Looking to stuff to sat...
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Holding on to Everything
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W. Tamra Chandler
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- Baggage
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Psalm 55:22, Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 43:18-19, Ephesians 4:31-32, 1 Peter 5:7
Poet Donald Hall told the story of a hermit in New Hampshire, a man who passed away leaving behind sheds full of hoarded stuff. In one of the sheds was a box labeled, “string too short to be saved.” ...
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Brennan Manning
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To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with th...
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Daniel Goleman
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Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfort...
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Jean Kilbourne
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- Emotions
- Advertising
We are surrounded by hundreds, thousands of messages every day that link our deepest emotions to products that objectify people and trivialize our most heartfelt moments and relationships. Every emoti...
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Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow
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- Emotions
- Loss
When you lead people through difficult change, you take them on an emotional roller coaster because you are asking them to relinquish something—a belief, a value, a behavior—that they hold dear. Peopl...
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Watchman Nee
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The more one probes the workings of an emotional life the more he will be convinced of its vacillation and undependability. No one should wonder that a child of God who walks by emotion rather than by...
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Jim Carrey
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- Pain
- Brokenness
If we all acted the way we really felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.
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P. D. James
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"Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel."
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Emotions Guide Us
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Brant P. Hansen
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- Emotions
- Reason/Rationality
Our rationality is not in charge at all. We’re kidding ourselves. Our rationality is the rider. The elephant goes where it wants. Our emotions and intuitions lead us. Instead of being guided by reason...
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
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- Pride
- Self-Centeredness
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
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Gaston Bachelard
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- Comfort
- Protection
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Andrew M. Davis
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But what seems to happen in our lived practice of worship is that we don’t simply enjoy the stimulation; we expect it from God. We don’t just value “positive” emotions, but in our lived experience and...
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Emotions are Divine: Why Pastors Need Biblical Permission to Feel
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David Lamb
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John 11:35, Psalm 5:5, Psalm 6:1, Psalm 78:58, Psalm 78:40, Psalm 18:19, Psalm 25:6, Psalm 5:7, Exodus 20:5, Exodus 22:23, Isaiah 15:5, Luke 15:null, Genesis 23:2, Genesis 42:24, 1 Samuel 1:10, 2 Samuel 1:11-12, 2 Kings 8:11-12, 2 Kings 22:18-20, Mark 14:72, John 20:11, Acts 20:37, Revelation 5:4
When the Professor Weeps: A Personal Story About ten years ago, I was teaching a course on the psalms for my seminary students in the midst of a personal health crisis. It wasn’t in my notes, but I ...
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Peter Kreeft
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The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why...
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Dallas Willard
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Feelings are, with a few exceptions, good servants. But they are disastrous masters.
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A Pile of Stuff with A Cover
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Jeff Manion
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Luke 12:15, Mark 4:19, Hebrews 13:5, Luke 16:13, Matthew 6:24, Matthew 19:21-24, Mark 10:21-25, Luke 20:22-25
In his classic monologue, comedian George Carlin riffed on the mountain of stuff we compile. His assertion is that a “house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it.” So when you get right down to ...
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Matthew McCullough
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For all our time and attention, no matter how carefully we curate our stuff or how much we might enjoy ourselves along the way, we’re all merely stocking and staging someone else’s opportunity for bar...
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Anna Quindlen
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There was a period when I believed stuff meant something. I thought that if you had matching side chairs and a sofa that harmonized and some beautiful lamps to light them you would have a home, that e...
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Jennie Allen
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- Emotions
- Thought
I began to see a pattern at work in many of us. Our emotions were leading us to thoughts, and those thoughts were dictating our decisions, and our decisions were determining behaviors, and then the be...
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When We Are Like Piñatas
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Bob Goff
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Proverbs 4:23, John 15:12, 1 Peter 4:8, Colossians 3:12-13, 2 Corinthians 4:7-9, Romans 12:21, Galatians 5:22-23
When my kids were little, I used to hang piñatas from our favorite tree in the backyard as often as possible. Sometimes we did it for their birthdays, but sometimes we did it because it was Saturday, ...
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The Little Things
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Scott Dudley
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- Baggage
- Little Things
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Matthew 6:25-34, Galatians 5:1, 1 Peter 5:7, Colossians 3:12-13, Isaiah 40:29, Hebrews 12:1, Philippians 2:4
One time, back when I was doing college ministry, I took a group of students camping. My wife came along with us. I had selected this really, really difficult hike. It was about ten miles long and alm...
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Depression is a Thief
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Sergei Marchenko
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2 Corinthians 1:3-4, John 16:33
Depression is a thief. A pickpocket. Swiping a memory here and there. An emotion, a plan for the afternoon, part of a conversation. It is a burglar. Leaving behind empty surfaces and containers that u...