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I moved to the States when I was twelve years old. I always lived with my mom, I didn’t have my father around and my role model was my uncle John, American. I met him when I was twelve and a half, thirteen. The first thing I remember was shaking his hand, his hand was...
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote, “We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.” I’m convinced that deep inner work leads to courageous outer risks....
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Life is like running on a treadmill over the sea of time. If you jump off you will drown. Does it ever feel like you’re running nonstop? Describe this experience? When was the last time you thought that if you jumped off you would drown? Describe this experience. record your own // leave a comment // CREDITS...
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I don’t wear a watch. I keep my phone off the table when we’re out for coffee. I lose track of time and enter this moment. Because this moment is the only one there is. I want the world around me to blur and fade as our conversation comes more and more into focus. I...
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“I don’t have time for that” – a common complaint in our always-too-busy world. We run from this to that to yet another thing, convincing ourselves that a busy schedule is the byproduct of a successful life (or is it the other way around?). But the truth is you do have time for that, whatever...
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When we shift our sense of time to center it around the experience of the cosmos we move from a universe that revolves around us to an ever-expanding reality that we find ourselves in, a part of a larger whole rather than the peak of a self created hierarchy. I am because you are, because...
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We experience time in seconds and minutes, in hours and days, in weeks and months and years. We mark our life in decades, your teens, your twenties, your thirties. We can even experience generations, posing for a photograph and capturing the moment when four generations shared the same breath. Centuries are a bit more difficult...
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Let’s talk about time. We experience it as a steady stream, always moving forward at roughly the same pace, quantum physics aside. We count down the days, anticipate an event or anniversary, staring at the clock as if to will it to move forward faster and faster. But the second hand defies our extra sensory...
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One of the most insidious lies in the world is the idea that love runs out. I don’t know exactly where it comes from but I know that we believe this idea and yet it is false. Because love is infinite. It is the deepest reality of the universe, of God, of you, of me....
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Silence doesn’t exist. It is a presence felt only as absence. A thing experienced as a no-thing. But, to say that silence doesn’t exist is both true and untrue, calling into question our understating of what it means to exist. And like silence, God is the presence felt in absence, the thing-as-no-thing, the sound of...
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I’m giving up this year. Not in the sense of calling it quits and admitting defeat – quite the opposite. I’m giving up the ruts I’ve become stuck in, shaking up my unconscious habitual patterns, and taking a stab at creating sustainable and scalable rhythms for my creativity and health. Because sometimes giving up is...
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My first year studying the enneagram I was so excited because I was a Seven. And I’m like, oh, I’m so super fun, I’m a seven, it’s great. Then the second year of studying the enneagram and I was like, oh no, I’m a Seven, I’m shallow, I’m a horrible person! I want a different...
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Some tulips wither and wilt, they shrivel and shrink towards death from lack of life water, lack of care, lack of energy. But some tulips, some fully expand, open and flourish. They give all of themselves until the tulip petals become so fully open that they begin to fall of and the tulip finally dies...
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The church as a cloud reminds us to be aware of our point of view. We are often warned, ideologically speaking, not to have our head in the clouds but rather to keep our feet on the ground. And to you, archetypal ideological pessimist, I declare that we can and we must do both. We...
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If the map disagrees with the territory, trust the territory. The map could be out of date, filled with paper towns, or you just might be holding it upside down. Regardless, the map exists to invite you into the world. So put down the map and start exploring. Record your own or leave a comment...
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We call it a “sunrise” even though we know that the sun isn’t actually moving. When you’re born into a world already in motion, riding this 1000 mile an hour roller costar becomes a skill we didn’t even know we had acquired. We become so used to something that our language fails to reflect what...
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A glimpse of my story is that I’m a transgressive genderqueer mestizaje, that is, born of a Mexican mother and Anglo father. I was born and raised in the republic of Texas which I tend to say is Northern Mexico, and have spent my entire life studying theology and ethics, from an undergrad all the way through...
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There is an art in asking the perfect question. There is a skill in answering a question with a question. When at its best, forwards a conversation. When at its worst, is a tactic we pull to avoid, to deflect, to put another under the microscope. i mean, I do this constantly. I’m afraid to...
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When it comes to social activism and working for justice, it is easy to have many goals and few strategies. Knowing where you are going is of little use if you don’t have any idea how to get there. Record your own or leave a comment Words: Jim Kast-Keat Image: New Old Stock Music: Dexter Britain
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It’s easy to become so focused on what you’re trying to do that you don’t stop to ask whether or not you should be doing it in the first place. It’s like Rochelle King once said, “Let’s ask whether the river is worth crossing.” I can too easily gravitate towards whatever shiny object is fluttering...
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First impressions matter. The first sentence creates the expectation. All other sentences don’t matter. Record your own or leave a comment Words: Doug Pagitt Image: Jim Kast-Keat Music: Bensound
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It’s funny that I’m such a research and fact driven person but I write and speak in a largely personal, story-driven, and connective way. I think it is because I resonate so highly with the words of my patron saint of sanity, Brené Brown, who says: “Maybe stories are just data with a soul.” So...
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As the plan began to lift from the ground I heard a hoot and a giggle as only two young children can do as they’re experiencing the wonder of flight. As quickly as their joy boiled up and out their parent was quick to quiet them down. As we age there is a temptation to...
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Far too often we seem to assume that the only way to act with conviction is to root it in some objective epistemological framework. This, however, reveals an anemia in our imagination by which I mean here our ethical courage. How might we find motivation for Christian faith and practice without retreating to epistemological foundationism...
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Lately I’ve heard a lot of people talk about cynicism as if it’s being brave, like it takes courage to be realistic, to see things in the worst possible light. And I reject that premise. See, I think courage is daring to believe in something that you cannot see, daring to trust and hope for...
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I had a coworker once compare his body to a race car. He said, “You wouldn’t put regular unleaded into one and expect it to perform well.” His point was to say that it matters what you put in your body; there will always be some sort of effect. This is by no means to...
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Action. Reflection. Action. You do something. Then you meet with someone who has done it before and they create space for you to reflect on what you did and why you did it and what it brought to the surface. Then you go out and do it again, this time with a new perspective on...
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CPE has taught me that death is not just a moment when everything turns off. It’s about pain, loss, family, regret, celebration, and more. However, we don’t want to, let alone know how to talk about death because we’ve significantly shifted the way people die. We have moved death from the home to the hospital...
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I have over three decades of evolutionary biology that has hardwired me to avoid pain, discomfort, and any whiff of a negative emotion. Or, as my CPE supervisor puts it, I prefer to live in a land of “Snoopies and rainbows.” 400 hours of CPE have been an experiment in dipping my toe into the...
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This episode of Thirty Seconds or Less is a question for Gary Vaynerchuck and the #AskGaryVee show: Gary, you often show your cards when it comes to your secret in business: to stop watching whatever popular TV show that everyone gives up a year of their life for and get shit done, to dive in and...
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