There are people who think spiritual life is about being passionately engaged. The more strongly they are committed to an idea or perspective, the healthier they see themselves. I know other people who believe it is essential to spiritual life to act in specific ways. They are convinced practicing certain disciplines or taking particular actions show our health. […]
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It can be easy for us to take work for granted. We see work as a necessary evil. We go to work so we can make money and buy things. Work is a step on the path toward what we want. If we can change jobs and get more money for doing the same work, or less, we can
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Leadership is challenging. It takes hard work, creativity, persistence, and insightful wisdom to become a strong leader. We work for years, committing our best efforts to find our own leadership. It is as if our own personal leadership is on the top shelf, in the back, just beyond what we can see. We can almost reach it,
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There are people who think spiritual life is about holding on as tight as possible. Some people believe we need to hold onto truth as strongly as we can. For them, truth is elusive and likely to escape if we do not contain or control it. They need to know clearly and concretely which truths are
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Leadership is knowing yourself well enough to bring out the best in other people. Leaders do the work it takes to be honest with themselves. They share their true selves with the people around them. They guide and inspire other people to become the people they have the potential to be. Leaders do not create
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Each of us wishes we could do more. We see images of natural disasters or social challenges and wish we could do more to help. People we love are in need or in pain and we wish we could do more for them. There are so many needs and so many potential ways we could
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Our flight takes off from Heathrow and heads west into the setting sun. The time of day and the speed of our plane make our journey a long, continuing trip into the sunset. We fly over England, then Ireland, then Greenland and the Atlantic. Eventually we find North America, flying over Canada and the western
Some people believe leadership is something intangible. They think some people have leadership while others do not. They perceive leadership as challenging to understand, a delicate balance of qualities and skills. They may not be able to measure leadership, but they think they know it when they see it. Some people are leaders while others are not.
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People desire forgiveness. Whether we realize it or not, something deep in us hungers to be forgiven. Whatever it is we feel we need to be forgiven for, we did not mean to do it. We did not set out to break the rules, or fail to meet expectations, or upset anyone. We were not trying to
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People remember. We remember people who have made meaningful contributions to our lives. Some of those contributions have taught us deep truths. Some have given us great joy or satisfaction; some have caused us intense pain or suffering. We believe we remember specific days or moments. We think we remember where we were when important events
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