Thanx to all of you who have told me about the bashing I
am getting on another Web site and given me your support.
I am grateful for all the friends I have.
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To: vpFREE@Yahoogroups.com
From: "vppappy" <tismurph@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri Mar 26, 2004 4:10pm
Subject: Re: Bashing on another Web site
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Jean Scott" <QueenofComps@f...> wrote:
Jean,
Here are some words of inspiration for you from a couple of
friends and admirers.
Terry Murphy and VP Pappy
"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."
--Benjamin Disraeli
"Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're
two steps ahead."
--Fanny Flagg
"A critic is someone, who lacking talent, gets his kicks by
hacking talent."
--VP Pappy
I hate the guys
Who minimize and criticize
The other guys
Whose enterprise
Has made them rise
Above the guys who criticize.
--I don't remember where it came from
The Metal Element, Criticism and Self-Worth By Christine Smith
.... Metal is used to make all our weaponry. It may be cast and honed
into a fine edge that enables it to cut right to the core of things.
Think of swords, knives and scalpels with their sharp, precise edges,
ready to pierce, carve and shape us. One way to determine the quality
of our self-worth is by examining our ability to discern criticism.
Constructive criticism can be truly healing, just as malicious
criticism can be harmful and devastating. When the sharp metallic knife
of criticism takes aim at you, stop for a moment and sense where it
criticism is coming from. If you can't see the fire that forged the
knife, if you can't feel the presence of the heart, then think twice
about accepting the criticism. It doesn't matter if you share your
critic's values. If you don't feel the clean, warm shine of the sun on
that knife, don't take it to your heart because it isn't coming from
the heart. Only take it to heart if it comes from the heart. Then it
becomes the surgeon's scalpel, the compassionate critic, doing surgery
to illuminate the truth within you. More importantly, stop taking
anonymous tips from random inner voices, those random little knives
inside of us. The next time the inner critic announces its presence,
ask it, "Whom do you serve?"
If the answer is, "Love and compassion shaped me and I serve the
perfection that is already inside of you," then listen. However, if the
answer is, "Your mother or father in one of their worst moods," then
you know to disregard it. Every time we hone and sharpen our own
discernment skills in regards to criticism, we are also shining and
polishing the true essence of who we are. Once we begin to value and
appreciate ourselves, it becomes easier to value and to feel valued by
others, and the quality of all our lives becomes enriched.