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A few excerpts from my essays and speaking, which I discovered on my Instagram channel. Sharing with you while I brew an ambitious essay I hope to share with you soon: 1. If you attack the symptom without addressing the cause, you are in a state of endless war. 2. Most of the behaviors we…
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Human nature, when seeking power, wants either to play the victim or to create victims of others. In fact, the second follows from the first. Once we start feeling sorry for ourselves, we will soon find someone else to blame, accuse, or attack—and with impunity! It settles the dust quickly, and takes away any immediate…
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Theologian Howard Thurman (1899–1981) believed that cultivating inner stillness allows us to experience the divine. Lerita Coleman Brown writes: As a seminary student walking home late one night, Thurman noticed the sound of water. He had taken this route many times, and he had never heard even a drip. The next day Thurman discussed his…
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It was an atmosphere of luxurious exhaustion, like a ripened, shedding rose, while all that waited outside was the failing New York afternoon. — La Cote Basque, 1965, Truman Capote
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On spring and summer mornings, I love to go out early with my little cup of coffee and walk through my garden with my dog Venus [DM team: Venus passed in 2017]. If I can somehow let my “roots and tendrils” reconnect me with the “givens” of life, as Bill Plotkin calls them [1]—not the…
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Theologian and ethicist Stanley Hauerwas: “The ability to live well is the ability to live without so many certainties.”