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When the Bible speaks of following Jesus, it is proclaiming a discipleship which will liberate mankind from all man-made dogmas, from every burden and oppression, from every anxiety and torture which afflicts the conscience.
The flame would then be passed from person to person, carrying home candles or small oil lamps from which the individual hearth fires could be re-lit to Invigorate the culture.
The object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.
When your happiness comes primarily from the happiness of others, you know you have moved from “me” to “we.” And the whole problem-solving and opportunity-seizing process changes.
Trust Your Gut, Not the Crowd.
Recent brain research assures us that neuroplasticity continues throughout our lives... if you want to tackle executive skill improvement, psychologists have developed proven strategies to do this.
Replace moral panic with literacy: inform kids that pornography is staged, edited performance rather than a map for real intimacy, and explain how unrealistic depictions can train expectations and behavior in ways that undermine future relationships. The chapter debunks the oft-repeated claim that “average first exposure is eleven,” noting weak evidence for that figure while citing research that the average age kids start searching for porn is fourteen—implying many will stumble on it earlier by accident. Address the alluring start of porn use candidly to prevent shame from fusing with emerging sexuality, and use the chapter’s “junk food vs. real meal” analogy to show how repeated consumption can narrow taste and make authentic connection feel less compelling. The goal is practical harm reduction: you inoculate with facts, offer better resources, and keep the channel open so your child does not outsource sex education to algorithms and strangers.
Spiritual friends listen to God, they listen to what He is stirring in their own hearts as they engage with us. With a freedom only broken people know, they simply give that to us, whatever it is, as faithful messengers of God and lovers of our soul.
Genetic evolution greatly accelerated during the last 50,000 years. The rate at which genes changed in response to selection pressures began rising around 40,000 years ago.
Remove the lies; replace them with truth.
Greek drama may have served as a ritual reintegration for combat veterans.
Show trust in your team by giving them complex and challenging tasks, but provide the necessary support and resources to help them succeed.
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
The quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life.
The trickster is not a trickster by nature. He is a trickster by necessity.
Regardless of the amount of recovery opportunity, the brain never comes close to getting back all the sleep it has lost. This is true for total sleep time, just as it is for NREM sleep and for REM sleep.
The slip-box is not a collection of notes. Working with it is less about retrieving specific notes and more about being pointed to relevant facts and generating insight by letting ideas mingle.
Sometimes I consider myself there, as a stone before a carver… I desire Him to make His perfect image in my soul, and render me entirely like Himself.
A fractured team is just like a broken arm or leg; fixing it is always painful, and sometimes you have to rebreak it to make it heal correctly.
People who own their lives do not feel guilty when they make choices about where they are going.
