From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown What contemplative prayer and different forms of meditation – including insight, mindfulness, transcendental, and vipassana meditation – have in common is an attempt to reduce the inner chatter. When the mind is quieted and the heart stilled, we often […]
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From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey The First Wave: Self Trust The first wave, Self Trust, deals with the confidence we have in ourselves – in our ability to set and achieve goals, to keep commitments, to walk our talk – and also with our
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From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD One day my doctoral student, Mary Bandura, and I were trying to understand why some students were so caught up in proving their ability, while others could just let go and learn. Suddenly we realized that there were two meanings to ability, not
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From “Embracing Your Second Calling: Find Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life” by Dale Hanson Bourke One other growing realization is that I did not always understand the nature of passion. I tended to confuse it with the adrenaline high that comes from frenetic activity. I like to be busy, to be
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From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner THERE WAS THE DAY I signed the contract for that first novel that I had started in college, for instance. It was a major event for me, needless to say – the fulfillment of my wildest dreams of literary glory. But of
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From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby Not long ago I crossed the threshold of my sixtieth year, an age that I once looked upon as being very old – but no longer do. And yet that marker has caused me to think more deeply
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