Being True to Yourself is Hard Work

By Michelle Malay Carter on June 2, 2008 

Wouldn’t it be great to: ???? 1.?be who we are ???? 2. to be accepted Why do we so often have to sacrifice one for the other? Is Who We Are Who We’ve Become? It?s unfortunate but, we all suffer at the hands of the cultures within which we travel – our family, our church, […]

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Know Thyself

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 14, 2008 

This is a continuation of my last post where I asserted that you really cannot be anything you want to be,?and believing that you can be anything will leave you either depressed or judgmental. It Begins in Childhood The work of children is to figure out the world – to understand it physically and relationally. […]

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Can We Really Be Anything We Want to Be?

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 13, 2008 

A quote on David Zinger’s blog got me thinking. Ninety percent of the world?s woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves ~ Sydney J. Harris Is this because self discovery is […]

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