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Today's meditation from  Weekly Soul: Fifty-two Meditations on Meaningful, Joyful, and Peaceful Living   by Dr. Frederic Craigie. -8-   Irenaeus, the great early church father, said the glory of God is a human being fully alive. Now, if you back off from every little controversy in your life, you’re not alive, and what’s more, you’re boring. It’s a terrible thing that we settle for so much less… The greatest pleasure for me was being with black civil rights leaders and followers, because they were so alive. You can be more alive in pain than in complacency. These often very poor blacks in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia, were so wonderfully alive, so cheerful, so courageous.   William Sloane Coffin   You are alive as you extend yourself on behalf of something that matters. William Sloane Coffin was no stranger to controversy. He certainly could have led, in his words, a “polite” and “comfortable” life as a clergyman and college chaplain, but in addition to the...

  Most of us grow up believing happiness is something we find —a lucky convergence of circumstances, relationships, and timing. But the older we get, the more obvious it becomes: happiness isn’t discovered, it’s built . And the building happens inside, not outside. A deeper sense of happiness isn’t a mood. It’s a stance toward life. It’s the quiet confidence that you are living in alignment with who you are, what you value, and how you want to move through the world. Below are a few pathways toward that deeper, steadier form of happiness—paths that echo some of the insights from Husain’s Road Map to Power , which emphasizes inner agency, clarity of purpose, and the discipline of choosing your life rather than drifting through it. 1. Stop outsourcing your emotional center A surprising amount of unhappiness comes from giving other people too much power over our internal state. We wait for approval, validation, or reassurance. We let someone else’s mood dictate our own. A deepe...

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