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EXERCISE #22: HOLD YOUR OWN PURSE STRINGS
Nancy Levin • Worthy: Boost Your Self-Worth to Grow Your Net Worth
says, “If I don’t care about me enough to honor myself and my own needs, it doesn’t matter if I’m worth a billion dollars on paper because the money will be useless.”
Nancy Levin • Worthy: Boost Your Self-Worth to Grow Your Net Worth
“Don’t piss on any happiness or kindness that comes your way. It’s a real sin to decide that an act or a moment is insufficient because it wasn’t the one you hoped for or most needed. I did that for a long time, and I became my own worst enemy, as we often can be.
Life—when you’ve lived a lot of it, as I have—is a series of acts and moments, and su
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The history of religion is a veritable who’s who of people who are apparently dedicated to “getting away from it all.” Monks of every ilk—swamis and spiritual gurus, nuns and Sufis, rabbis and hermits—all spend time “away” in silence or in physical retreat from the ordinary routines of the world around them. But they never sta
... See moreL’écartement des plaisirs comme des biens, la volonté de vivre en communauté et de participer au « soin de l’être » font émerger un véritable mode de vie des Thérapeutes, dont l’essence sera de se donner une existence complète 30
Xavier Pavie • Exercices Spirituels. Leçons de la philosophie antique (French Edition)
It was a prophetic work. In it he argued that the breakdown of family, community, and faith had left us fundamentally insecure, deprived of the traditional supports of identity and worth. He did not live to see the age of the selfie, the Facebook profile, designer labels worn on the outside, and the many other forms of “advertisements for myself,”
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