From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner THE TEMPTATION IS always to reduce life to size. A bowl of cherries. A rat race. Amino acids. Even to call it a mystery smacks of reductionism. It is the mystery. As far as anybody seems to know, the vast majority of […]
From “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon There’s a reason that the film “It’s a Wonderful Life” has been so resonant for decades: what matters most in the darkest hours of George Bailey’s life are the many personal relationships he has invested in along the way.
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From “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” by Luke Burgis We’ll see in this chapter that mimetic conflict is contagious. It can lead to a social environment in which everyone is reacting mimetically to everyone else. This dynamic keeps people locked in cycles of endless conflict, bound to one another through mimesis,
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From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer My youthful understanding of “Let your life speak” led me to conjure up the highest values I could imagine and then try to conform my life to them whether they were mine or not. If that sounds like what we
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by David A. Shirey https://davidashirey.com/blog/living-out-the-verbs-of-our-lives-transitioning-into-retirement
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From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD Who’s right? Today most experts agree that it’s not either – or. It’s not nature or nurture, genes or environment. From conception on, there’s a constant give-and-take between the two. In fact, as Gilbert Gottlieb, an eminent neuroscientist, put it, not only do
From “Embracing Your Second Calling: Find Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life” by Dale Hanson Bourke Here’s what I am learning: God wants us to spend the second halves of our lives worrying less about what we do and more about who we become. He wants to turn our lives upside down
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From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby Saudade – A vague and constant desire for something that does not and possibly cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning toward the past or toward the future; not an active discontent or poignant sadness
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From “Listen To Your Day: The Life-Changing Practice of Paying Attention” by Paul Angone What would you do if a bear moonwalked right in front of you? Gasp? Laugh? Pull out your phone as quickly as possible to take a video? What if I told you that you probably wouldn’t do any of these things?
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From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey A cynic might ask, “So what? Is trust really more than a nice-to-have social virtue, a so-called hygiene factor? Can you measurably illustrate that trust is a hard-edged economic driver?” I intent to answer these questions emphatically in this
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