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¶ … Silence and Inner Voice
"a Grace of Silence": Inner and outer voices When we are stripped bare of our defenses, when we have no attractive clothing, when our image is demonized, and when we are the member of an arbitrarily-despised racial group, we must look within for emotional sustenance instead. This is a much lonelier emotional journey.
When our inner voice coheres with the voices of the outer world, life is much easier. A beautiful girl is told by her parents, friends, and teachers that she is beautiful and therefore good and she feels better about herself. It is more difficult when the inner voice of self-worth and the outer voices of the world do not cohere, as is the case in Andrew Flewelling's essay entitled "A Grace of Silence." In the essay, Flewelling describes the experience of growing up a minister's son in a racially polarized Southern community. Of biracial decent, the child of a white father and an African-American mother, Flewelling was told throughout his life by the outer world that he was bad and not a worthy person because of his skin tone. To survive, he had to only listen to his true, inner voice.
But, as Flewelling's experience illustrates, we are not alone, as we can also look to our community for support. When he was young, this community support gave Flewelling the sense of 'I am' that he carried into adolescence and later adulthood. However, he admits that "as I got older, the noise of our civilization -- television, movies, history, religion -- began to…
Communication Abilities Comparison of my personal relationships with two people. Man is a social animal and every individual is involved in different kinds of relationships with other individuals throughout their lives. Some of these relationships are close and permanent, e.g., blood relationships with our parents and children or temporary, fleeting relationships like our relationships with fellow travelers during a train or an air journey. The quality and type of relationship is determined
Mandatory An attitude of 'firm persuasion' means that we have a sense of mission in what we do; a mission that cannot be easily diverted or silenced. At his core, Morrie's firm persuasion was that he was a teacher. Even when facing tremendous physical challenges and obstacles, he continued to teach Mitch and others about the nature of his life. One way to figure out what our life's work is and
You can't simply say you're going to integrate the science of psychotherapy with scripture." Moore argues, "because there are only sciences and theories of psychotherapy that are contradictory and incoherent." The implication that pastoral care and counseling and not and have not been Biblical, Vicki Hollon, executive director of the Wayne Oates Institute in Louisville, insists, was creating a false dichotomy. Hollon contends that Southern officials created the proverbial straw
One should be aware that meditation is able to bridge the gap between humanity and divinity and the first step is to believe in the possibility and desire such a state. In order to attain the state of meditation, Evelyn Underhill (1930) states that an act of perfect concentration, of passionate focus of the self on a certain point, when the self dedicates itself guided by a pure intention
I prefer lying down on my back, with my feet flat on the ground and my knees up in the air, although I have done the same basic technique sitting up as well. I close my eyes and consciously relax every part of my body, starting with my toes and working my way up, through the legs, hips, torso, arms, neck and even face. At the same time, I
Racial identity plays a strong role in the definition of self; Lorde recognized the importance of racial identity even in the struggle for gender equality. Her argument implicitly supports Jones' assertion that racial equality is "prior" to the cause of gender equality for African-American women. The implicit argument is that feminism could not be a united force because white women did not have the ability through their institutionalized advantages