Brian Allain

Howard Thurman

From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown Dr. Howard Washington Thurman was born on November 18, 1899, near Palm Beach, Florida. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Daytona Beach, Florida, where Howard spent his early years with his parents, two sisters, and maternal grandmother,

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An Act of Will

From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer Vocation, the way I was seeking it, becomes an act of will, a grim determination that one’s life will go this way or that whether it wants to or not. If the self is sin-ridden and will bow to truth

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The Fixed Mindset

From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD Believing that your qualities are carved in stone – the fixed mindset – creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over. If you have only a certain amount of intelligence, a certain personality, and a certain moral character – well, then you’d

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