A Frightening Conclusion

Posted by Paul Reynolds on Nov 15, 2022 in Blog, Western Insight | Comments Off on A Frightening Conclusion

I have come to a frightening conclusion That I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather.  I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized.  If we treat people as they are, we make them worse.   If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming”

-Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

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