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Weekly Soul: Week #47 - People are the lessons (Craigie)

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  Today's meditation from  Weekly Soul: Fifty-two Meditations on Meaningful, Joyful, and Peaceful Living   by Dr. Frederic Craigie: -47-   In the school of life, difficult people are the faculty. They teach us our most important spiritual lessons, the lessons that we would be most unlikely to learn on our own.   Mark I. Rosen   Civility has outer work and inner work. The outer work, if not easy, is at least straightforward. You listen to people. You give them a chance to speak. You communicate that you’re enough interested in understanding them that you’re willing to hold off on coming at them with your own opinions or rejoinders. You allow the possibility of a seedling relationship to grow. The inner work can be more challenging. How are you going to position your heart so that you are able to reach out in civility to someone who feels like the enemy? The outer work of civility takes place in the realm of behavior; the inner work takes place in...
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Embracing Diversity: A Practice of Belonging

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  The phrase “One Family Indivisible” serves not to flatten difference, but to honor it. Diversity is not a challenge to be managed—it is a gift to be received. It invites a deeper understanding of humanity, belonging, and love. Unity does not require uniformity. It calls for presence across languages, generations, abilities, and beliefs. It asks for listening beyond comfort, for releasing the need to be right, and for leaning into the grace of authenticity. To embrace diversity is to welcome contradiction. It means sitting with stories that unsettle familiar narratives. It means recognizing that spiritual kinship often begins where certainty ends. Communities are not unified by sameness, but by the ongoing choice to show up for one another—in the messy, beautiful work of relationship. a post inspired by  One Family Indivisible  by Steven Greenebaum Book Description: Throughout history we have divided ourselves into groupings of "us" and "them".  One Family: In...
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Books on Discount: Racing against Time (Weiss)

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  The e-book edition of  Racing against Time  by Jeffrey Weiss  is on Kindle countdown discount, beginning at 99 cents, from November 12-19. The earlier you get it, the more you save!  Racing against Time  is currently #1 among Amazon's hot, new releases in running and jogging. Book Description: In  Racing Against Time , Jeff Weiss shares the story of his late middle-age transformation.  Weiss went from running a first 10K race at age 48 to becoming an Ironman and ultramarathoner by his late 50s.  Along the way he discovers the extraordinary physical and emotional benefits that flow from chasing ever-increasing fitness goals.  Weiss’s journey shows us that we have the power to influence how we age, that goal-setting and adventure are not solely the province of the young.  At a time when so many of us are looking for ways to increase our health span – that portion of life that we spend in good health – Weiss’s story shows us one way ...
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