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“the true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
The demand for an equitable distribution of resources would be central to any politics emerging from the fatigue of the belabored self. A social safety net with a guaranteed minimum living allowance would be a necessary component of a politics of self-realization.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
The fourth is the one that interests me in this chapter and that drives our inquiry further. For it is the one that both makes a calling of mediocrity and redefines it altogether, away from social and statistical norms. This position finds its main advocates in contemporary feminist views of biography (and of life itself), which set out to show tha
... See moreJames Hillman • The Soul's Code
Similarly, Steiner recommends that the individual think and act from a deeper and wider reality, understood in the Christian tradition as Christ , in the Hindu tradition as Krishna , in Buddhist tradition as Buddha , in the Chinese tradition as Tao , and in the Western philosophical monist tradition as the Self, or the Absolute.
Robert McDermott • The New Essential Steiner
King’s civil rights movement, at least, took on ontological assertions, calling us to honor the concrete humanity of our neighbor.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
The test of freedom is control over time.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
In other words, rather than being a strict area of scholarship, Adlerian psychology is accepted as a realisation;
Ichiro Kishimi • The Courage to be Disliked: The Japanese phenomenon that shows you how to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness
had always imagined that the role of clergy was to navigate moments of crisis and rupture with the right combination of solace, inspiration, and challenge: from the pulpit, at the graveside, in public protest.