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Taken together, Jung’s ideas about happiness and his five pillars of well-being stand up solidly to modern research findings. I propose this practical seven-point summary:
... See more1. Do not fall prey to seeking pure happiness. Instead, seek lifelong progress toward happierness.
2. Manage as best you can the main sources of misery in your life by attending to
What if, instead of starting from the assumption that human beings are thinking things, we started from the conviction that human beings are first and foremost lovers? What if you are defined not by what you know but by what you desire? What if the center and seat of the human person is found not in the heady regions of the intellect but in the gut
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Now Frost was “onto his bone,” as Thoreau would say. He knew that this was a task big enough for a lifetime. He knew that he would be chewing on it for the rest of his career.
Stephen Cope • The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
Wallace Stegner’s Crossing to Safety,
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
A healthier, more realistic approach to align the intelligence centers is to develop healthy rhythms of doing, feeling, and thinking. In this triadic dance, rhythmic alignment of all three centers cultivates the wisdom to discern.
Drew Moser • The Enneagram of Discernment: The Way of Vocation, Wisdom, and Practice
Discipleship is not just the feeling of affection and emotion but also a call to follow out into the world and act.33 It is both to receive at the phenomenological level and to respond and participate. Resonance is both experience and action.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Such an intellectualist model of the human person—one that reduces us to mere intellect—assumes that learning (and hence discipleship) is primarily a matter of depositing ideas and beliefs into mind-containers.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
The inner world, while more than ever an intricate edifice (thanks to modern psychology), nevertheless appears closed to the pastor. The modern self, able to be created in the first place thanks to the pastoral work of Augustine, has turned on the pastoral.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
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