jeff miller
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jeff miller
Amma Syncletica said, "There are many who live in the mountains and behave as if they were in the town, and they are wasting their time.
It is possible to be a solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd,
and it is possible for one who is a solitary to live in the crowd of his own thoughts."
Benedicta Ward, trans., The Sayings of the Desert
... See moreChrist and Francis draw humanity forward just by walking the full journey themselves. Transformed people quite simply transform people and set the bar of history higher for all of us. That is one of the ways we fundamentally “help” other people.
—Father Richard Rohr, daily meditation
Remember that your cognitive error is to seek peace of mind by diffusing your attention and disengaging from your instinctual energy.
You become “unselfconscious,” mistakenly thinking that your presence, engagement, and input do not matter.
Notice this tendency in your thinking today. (Understanding the Enneagram, 125)
Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
instagram.comTake care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.
Jesus: Luke 12:13-21
Something happens when we let our whole identity as a change-maker die into something deeper. It's not about becoming a better activist or finding a more effective way to fight what's wrong. It's about stepping entirely off that game board of separation and discovering that there's a vastly different way of moving in the world—one that comes from... See more
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Today, place your hand on your chest, right over your heart, and take a few deep breaths. What do you experience?
Stay with whatever sensations you find in your “heart space.”
(The Wisdom of the Enneagram, 165)
Francis and Clare saw orthopraxy (correct practice) as a necessary parallel, and maybe even precedent, to mere verbal orthodoxy (correct teaching)… emphasizing practice over theory
—Richard Rohr, “Eager to Love”
How to reframe unwelcome feedback (via Greg Shove)
https://substack.com/home/post/p-166270992
The natural reaction to getting critical feedback is to think: “They’re wrong – it’s not my fault.”
Instead, try to think: This person is showing me a blind spot.
A blind spot doesn’t mean “you’re bad at your job,” or even that your work quality is bad. It
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