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Children are made of awe. We have much to learn from them, but we seldom aim to. When we encounter the freedom of a child, we can choose to participate in their liberation or we can grow to resent the freedom in them.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Excellence may be a part of calling, but work itself is a meeting place for the divine as we experience a God who labors alongside us.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Limits may slow us down long enough to breathe in what we already have, but they do not reduce meaning. In some cases, they may generate more. We’re not designed to be at capacity all the time, endlessly stimulated by activities, saturated in tasks to tick off... To remind ourselves of our limits is a kindness.
Donald Winnicott • Article
If you want to know if you’ve forgotten how to marvel, try staring at something beautiful for five minutes and see where your mind goes.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
When I asked Singer why the late two-thousands were a time of great ferment for applied consequentialism, he cited the Internet: “People will say, ‘I’ve had these ideas since I was a teen-ager, and I thought it was just me,’ and then they got online and found that there were others.”
Gideon Lewis-Kraus • The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism
