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Every one of us is shadowed by a false self

Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self. This is the man that I want myself to be but who cannot exist, because God does not know anything about him.

Our vocation is not simply to be but to work together with God

Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny.

Integrity is more valuable than competency

While applicants are assessed for competency, employees prefer integrity over skill in their colleagues. This insight is evident from personal experience, but research into the use of challenging and supportive voice conducted at Binghampton University may shed more light. Challenging voice - communication that challenges the status quo and focuses on new ideas and efficiency. Supportive voice - communication that strengthens social ties and trust and builds the friendly cohesion of a team.…

All art is cosmos

All art is cosmos, cosmos found within chaos.

We are afraid of this kind of prayer

To serve a work of art is almost identical with adoring the Master of the Universe in contemplative prayer. In contemplative prayer the saint (who knows himself to be a sinner, for none of us is whole, healed and holy twenty-four hours a day) turns inwards in what is called “the prayer of the heart,” not to find self, but to lose self in order to be found. We are afraid of this kind of prayer, we of the twentieth century Judeo-Christian tradition.…

Learning to trust authority again

I was once honest and vulnerable at work. But at a company I’d rather forget, I was hated for my vulnerability, which is my strength, and my honesty was shaped into a dagger and plunged into my exposed heart. Will I ever be safe to entrust myself to anyone with authority over my livelihood? Or am I consigned to live forever behind a partial mask among those who have power to hurt me?…

God shares the sustaining of creation with others

When god creates the heavens and the earth, He separates the light from the darkness on the first day of creation but, on day four, He delegates this task to the heavenly lights. It’s assumed that these creative acts are not once-and-for-all events but also need to be sustained, and that God wishes to share the responsibility of sustaining creation with others. If it happened a single time, it might be coincidence but later God grants authority over all creatures to humanity.…

Entrepreneurship happens in existing companies too

An entrepreneur finds opportunity and captures what value he can, even if he’s working for an employer. The entrepreneur must take advantage of his present situation, looking for opportunities and capturing value as he can in the circumstances he finds himself. If he waits for the perfect opportunity, for a time when his time is entirely free for the task, he will wait forever. Stories of people who drop everything to pursue a million-to-one chance are a favorite of Americans.…

After this(1) there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate(2) a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids–blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years(3). When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?…