NT Wright in Surprised by Hope, pp. 152-154 This is the point at which we modern Westerners are called to make a huge leap of the imagination. We have been buying our mental furniture for so long from Plato’s factory that we have come to take for granted a basic ontological contrast between “spirit“ in […]
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Charlie Dates At Emory University’s Candler school of theology. You see the watching world does not have a problem with Jesus being born. Christmas is pretty cool to a lot of people people. It doesn’t disturb us that he lived. Some are willing to admit that he performed a dynamic ministry and that he was […]
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“Strangely, life gets harder when you try to make it easy. Exercising might be hard, but never moving makes life harder. Uncomfortable conversations are hard, but avoiding every conflict is harder. Mastering your craft is hard, but having no skills is harder. Easy has a cost.” Choosing a new habit “When choosing a new habit […]
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Spanish philosopher Baltasar Gracian on how to give advice: “When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.” Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom this works well in preaching to seasoned Christians (from James Clear)
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Henry Miller It was published in 1972 in an ultra-limited-edition chapbook titled On Turning Eighty (public library), alongside two other essays. Only 200 copies were printed, numbered and signed by the author. Miller begins by considering the true measure of youthfulness: If at eighty you’re not a cripple or an invalid, if you have your […]
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Writer and entrepreneur Kevin Kelly on making life count: “I am now 55 years old. Like a lot of people in middle age my late-night thoughts bend to contemplations about how short my remaining time is. Even with increasing longevity there is not enough time to do all that I want. Nowhere close. My friend Stewart Brand, […]
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1. Be gentle. It’s an act of trust. 2. Trust yourself. Intuition is your brain working behind your back. 3. Get help. Sometimes things are too much. 4. Create space for yourself–use environment, time and boundaries. 5. Cocoon yourself for transformation. Survival is not enough. 6. Embrace your antagonists. Struggle, anger, and disagreements lead to […]
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After my mother died at the age of 55, in 2008, I wrote a book about mourning. I read through scholarly texts and novels and poems that touched explicitly on grief. In the process, I learned how physical it is, causing changes in cortisol levels, memory, sleep, and appetite; leaving the mourner exhausted, scattered, struggling […]
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A four-year-old and a six-year-old presented their Mom with a house plant. They had used their own money and she was thrilled. The older of them said with a sad face, There was a bouquet that we wanted to give you at the flower shop. It was real pretty, but it was too expensive. It […]
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“Creative ideas happen when you stop thinking about what others will think.” James Clear (Share this on Twitter)
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