The Burden Is Light: Liberating Your Life from the Tyranny of Performance and Success
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The Burden Is Light: Liberating Your Life from the Tyranny of Performance and Success
The “wish to be feared or loved by people for no reason other than the joy derived from such power, which [he now realizes] is no joy at all. It is a wretched life.” It is the sort of life that hollows you out, sucking every ounce of your energy to the surface to maintain the veneer that captures attention. Indeed, we’re prone in this idolatry to m
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So when she saw a man was interested in her, she would silently say in her heart toward him, “You may turn out to be a great guy, and maybe even my husband, but you cannot ever be my life. Only Christ is my life.” When she began to do this, like Leah, she got her life back. This spiritual discipline gave her the ability to set boundaries and make g
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He explained that on our path through the world life will present us with opportunities to discover why we are here and how to live in deep connection with this purpose. In every moment, we have a choice: to embrace life, free ourselves of fear, and allow love to reign in our hearts and dictate our lives; or to deny life’s call to belong to its sac
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