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Being an Illuminator, seeing other people in all their fullness, doesn’t just happen. It’s a craft, a set of skills, a way of life. Other cultures have words for this way of being. The Koreans call it nunchi, the ability to be sensitive to other people’s moods and thoughts. The Germans (of course) have a word for it: herzensbildung, training one’s
... See moreDavid Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“Let the young soul survey its own life with a view to the following question: ‘What have you truly loved thus far?5 What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?’ Assemble these revered objects in a row before you and perhaps they will reveal a law by their nature and their order: the fundamental law of yo
... See moreDavid Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
MARCH 18 The Life of a Caretaker
Mark Nepo • The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
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Jane Ratcliffe • The Warm Vanilla Pudding Hum Of Well Being: A Conversation with Liz Gilbert, Part II
You know that feeling at the end of the day, when the anxiety of that-which-I-must-do falls away… That moment when you think, Oh God, what have I done with this day? And what am I doing with my life? And how must I change to avoid catastrophic end-of-life regrets?
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At the end of my life, I know I won’t be wishing I’d held more back, been less effu
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