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kindnotestoself · 5 months

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Goodness isn't inherent, it is a goal to strive for every day. It's a choice you make over and over. It's a skill you practice at and sometimes you slip up. Don't beat yourself up. You are trying, and that's the important thing. There is not one single person on this planet that is perfect, but there are people out there who decide time and time again to be kind. to be compassionate, open minded, and thoughtful. People that choose to help, not because it benefits themselves, but because it is right. Keep working at being a good person

#recovery #goodness #kindness #good person

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positivelypositivethoughts · 3 months

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momentsbeforemass · 1 year

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“If you need religion to be a good person...”

The other day, I did something that I rarely do. I read the comments.

There was one that stood out. It was deeply negative, full of personal attacks and slander (if you’re Catholic clergy, this sort of thing comes with the territory).

What made it stand out was the way that it closed. With what I’m sure the author considered to be a show-stopper – an unanswerable condemnation of both me and religious faith in general.

“If you need religion to be a good person, then you’re not a good person.”

I literally laughed out loud, said (out loud), “you get it!” And laughed some more.

Because that is exactly the point.

I am not a good person.

A quick look past the thin veneer of habit and manners reveals my deeply flawed character. Someone who is at bottom vain, petty, vicious, greedy, condescending, and vengeful.

Left to my own devices, that is exactly who I would be.

It’s not someone I want to be around.

And it’s not someone I want to be.

If you ever wonder why I keep writing and preaching about your interior life, about the Sacraments, about the habits of faith? About becoming who God made you to be? About not letting anything get between you and God?

This is why.

And I know I’m not alone. Because – if we’re honest – none of us are good persons.

I am a Catholic because I am well-aware of who I would be if I were not.

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#Good person #Religion #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #Comments #Habits of Faith #Getting between you and God #Who God made you to be #Evelyn Waugh #Moments Before Mass

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flaneuresse · 11 months

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never stop being a good person because of bad people.

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poetrybyonur · 11 months

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If you think a person is a good man, but can’t for the life of you specify what makes him a good man or why you think he’s good, then perhaps you never truly believed he is. Only the person who can accurately describe a man’s character and what makes that individual good, should deserve his friendship. (This applies to women as well)

My stoicism of the day.

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clayvessel · 5 months

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fantasizing about asking your slime girl crush if you wanna fuse together and become one entity. I am you and you are me now and we are 1. What will we be together. I think it would be beautiful.

#I want you to touch my clay'#slime #slime girl #slime boy #slime person #goo girl #goo boy #goo thing #slime thing #good person

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okletsgetnuts · 4 months

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#sydney sweeney #euphoria #good person #I don’t know if I’m a good person #tv series #actress #drama #ruined weeknd #photo #okletsgetnuts #celebrity #dunkindonutz #pop culture #pop crave

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fizziepopangel · 7 months

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"Do You Still Think That I'm A Good Person?"

"I make questionable decisions

and I have a hard time minding my business

and I tend to talk when I should listen...

Do you still think that I'm a good person?"

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serenitypoetry · 4 months

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Good Person

am I a good person?

a question that I fear

it haunts my waking nightmares with its overwhelming aura

a ring light made of noise

a circle made of hurt

it trembles when I consider that it really could be true

I am a good person?

I don't think I believe

it's hard for me to fathom that I really could have worth

a currency of questions

a stock market of deeds

it pains me just to realize that I am a person, too

#poetry #original poetry #original poem #poet #poets on tumblr #spilled ink #good person #insecurity #personal poetry #serenitypoetry

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euesworld · 1 year

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neurotypicalabusesurvivor · 4 months

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If you're dependent on your ability to feel empathy to not be abusive you're not a good person.

If anything was to happen to your ability to feel what others are feeling you will become abusive.

Also empathy can be weaponized against people. Just because someone is crying and hurt doesn't mean they don't deserve it.

Sympathy is cognitive, it cognitively understanding why something is bad. Sympathy is required to be a good person.

#emapthy #sympathy #narc abuse does not exist #good person

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momentsbeforemass · 8 months

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God never compares us to anyone else

If you are a good person, then you are aware of your shortcomings.

You can’t be a good person if you’re not. Because being a good person requires a lot of work, a lot of course corrections, a lot of do-overs.

It’s a process. A life-long one. One that’s critical to becoming who God made you to be.

Which is why the Church has a Sacrament devoted to course corrections and do-overs. And to making sure that you and I know that God loves us – right in the middle of that work. No matter how many course corrections and do-overs we have.

But if you and I don’t know about our shortcomings, then there’s nothing we can do about them.

Which is why being aware of your shortcomings is part of being a good person.

But there’s a right way and a wrong way to use that awareness.

If I’m aware of my shortcomings, so that I can work on them?

So that I can take them to God in prayer, so that I can talk them through with a friend, so that I right the wrongs that I’ve done, so that I can work on what’s behind them with a therapist, so that I can receive God’s grace and forgiveness in the Sacrament?

Then I’m use that awareness the right way.

But if I’m using that awareness of all my shortcomings to compare myself to someone else? Then I am setting myself up to be miserable. Not to mention making a false comparison.

Why do I say that? Because all I know about other people is what I see on the outside. Their carefully crafted exteriors, which (as Jesus tells us) “appear beautiful on the outside.”

This, by the way, is the dynamic that Jesus is talking about in today’s Gospel. When he condemns the Pharisees for spending their time making sure that they look good on the outside.

Instead of doing the hard work, instead of doing the heavy lifting needed to deal with their shortcomings, on the inside.

The thing is, even if we’re not like the Pharisees. Even if we are working on our shortcomings – instead of desperately trying to pretend that we don’t have any. All of us look better on the outside than we do on the inside.

So, when I look at you, I see a finished package. I see someone who has it together. Who has a certain style, a certain flair, who seems at peace with God and happy in their own skin.

What I can’t see is all of the work that you put in to get there. Or how hard you’re working now to be the person God made you to be. And even though you know your work is nowhere near complete, all I get to see is the outside. All I get to see is a finished package.

And when I compare your finished package to the mess on my inside?

That is when I use my awareness of my shortcomings the wrong way.

Because when I look at my insides, I know that I’m nowhere close to you. And it makes my heart sink. Who knows if I’ll ever get there?

If you’ve got that perspective on your shortcomings?

It’s a great way to let your shortcomings get between you and God. And it’s not from God.

Which is why dealing with our shortcomings never involves looking at anyone else.

And its why God never compares us to anyone else.

Never compare your inside to someone else’s outside.

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#Comparison #Compare #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #Inside #Outside #Shortcomings #Good person #Moments Before Mass #Awareness

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b0bthebuilder35 · 1 month