relationship with work
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relationship with work
Martin Luther King, Jr., said, “Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great str
... See moreCole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
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My definition of “Life’s Work:”
“A lifelong quest to build something for others that expresses who you are”
-via Patrick O’Shaughnessy
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It's been hard, sure, but in a good way rather than a dumb way. What I wrote a year ago has only become more true:
When I’m writing this blog, I feel like that scene in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark where Harrison Ford sticks the Staff of Ra into an underground map at the right time of day and a beam of light shines through the ruby... See more
Adam Mastroianni • The Slop School of Internet Success and other lies about cyberspace
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the right work feels hard in a good way, not in a dumb way.
How boring to spend the whole of my vocational energy trying to figure out if I am choosing the right work. It is of much greater interest to me to talk about how I’m going to do the work with integrity. How am I going to protect dignity as I work? And what truths are calling out to me as I work?
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
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We cannot talk about work as calling without contending with the fact that there are those who have been denied choice, equity, and dignity in their work.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
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choice as a precursor for meaning?