Brian Allain

trust helps us be more aware

From “Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment” by J. Brent Bill Trusting that God directs our paths teaches us to see the ways life opens. Our lives are filled with potential “a-ha” moments. Following our spiritual compass helps us see the “a-has.” Trusting God also allows us to be real and genuine and authentic […]

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entrepreneur

From “Innovation and Entrepreneurship” by Peter F. Drucker Every practice rests on theory, even if the practitioners themselves are unaware of it. Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the economy

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hospitality to the “other”

From “On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old” by Parker J. Palmer As you welcome whatever you find alien within yourself, extend that same welcome to whatever you find alien in the outer world. I don’t know any virtue more important these days than hospitality to the stranger, to those we perceive

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living in a creative tension

From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer If we are to live our lives fully and well, we must learn to embrace the opposites, to live in a creative tension between our limits and our potentials. We must honor our limitations in ways that do not distort

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an all pervasive aliveness

From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown There is the rest of detachment and withdrawal when the spirit moves into the depths of the region of the Great Silence…Here the Presence of God is sensed as an all pervasive aliveness which materializes into the concreteness of

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