When every other girl wants to wear a sexy halloween costume
The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free.
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| — | Thomas Merton, ‘Why Alienation is for Everybody,’ 1969 essay |
What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now. If you believe that you’re going to leave and evacuate to somewhere else, then why do anything about this world? A proper view of heaven leads not to escape from the world, but to a full engagement with it, all with the anticipation of a coming day when things are on earth as they currently are in heaven.
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| — | Rob Bell, Love Wins: a Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived |
liturgical time is essentially poetic time, oriented toward process rather than productivity, willing to wait attentively in stillness rather than always pushing ‘to get the job done.’
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| — | kathleen norris, the cloister walk (via hildawg30) |
dude. listen now. you will not regret.
holy. crap. john legend cover of adele’s “rolling in the deep”
this man is incredible on so many levels. dude can sang!
To be a client-centered therapist is to risk meeting the client as a person, to be of service in an authentic, collaborative relationship. It is the difference between using techniques to achieve certain ends and being oneself in relation to another person.
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| — | Corsini & Wedding, 2011 |
Blessed is the woman who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; but her delight is in Yahweh’s law. On her law she meditates day and night. She will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever she does shall prosper.
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| — | Psalm 1:1-3, from the Silent Voices Bible (silentvoicesbible.com) |
