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Everything Happens for a Reason
Kate Bowler
What if rich did not have to mean wealthy, and whole did not have to mean healed? What if being people of “the gospel” meant that we are simply people with good news? God is here. We are loved. It is enough.
Kate Bowler
What if rich did not have to mean wealthy, and whole did not have to mean healed? What if being people of “the gospel” meant that we are simply people with good news? God is here. We are loved. It is enough.
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#23 Generosity as a practice
I've learned accidentally that generosity is extremely uncomfortable but can be learned. Giving to charities is not practicing generosity, it just fits into the norms of society. Gifts are uncomfortable because they create bonds. Give before it feels like you are ready. Giving can open you up to more possibility
I've learned accidentally that generosity is extremely uncomfortable but can be learned. Giving to charities is not practicing generosity, it just fits into the norms of society. Gifts are uncomfortable because they create bonds. Give before it feels like you are ready. Giving can open you up to more possibility
Paul Millerd • Tweet
Letting go is not in anybody’s program for happiness, and yet all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning. You can take that as an absolute. As German mystic-philosopher Meister Eckhart said, the spiritual life has much more to do with subtraction than it does with addition.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
You don't need more intensity, you need more consistency. Intensity impresses; consistency transforms.
A Harvard psychologist once asked Amos Tversky why he became a psychologist. “It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” he said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on... See more
SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations
Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
instagram.comThat is all we have, this moment with the world. It will not last, because nothing lasts. Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the universe consists of losing, and no matter how much we find along the way, life amounts to a reverse savings account in which we are eventually robbed of everything. Our dreams and plans and jobs and knees... See more
Maria Popova • Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All
Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.
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The Miracle of Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vo-Dihn Mai, and Mobi Ho
101 Additional Advices
Kevin Kelly
Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive.
Kevin Kelly
Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive.