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Action Reflection: Choose a Cause
- October 27, 2011
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Action & Reflection* space to explore and practice “What is it that allows you to flourish in ways that enriches the world around you?” Consider this week’s quotes as a call or reminder to create a flourishing life that adds to the well-being of others: “Dedicate your life to a cause greater than yourself, and your life will become a glorious romance and adventure.” – Mack Douglas “May God bless you with the foolishness to think that you can make a difference in this world, so that you will do things which others tell you cannot be done.” - A Franciscan Benediction ACTION: Make a list of causes you are passionate about, then choose one with which to get involved! REFLECTION: What do you care...
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Action & Reflection: Hate vs. Love
- October 20, 2011
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Action & Reflection* space to explore and practice that which allows you to flourish in ways that enriches the world around you! Consider this week’s quote as a call or reminder to participate in creating a flourishing life that adds to the well-being of others: “The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued that self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.” “One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart – intelligence and goodness – shall humanity rise to...
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Dream Group Invitation: What’s Your Dream?
- October 18, 2011
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“I had no idea whether my life would someday be relevant to anyone else’s. But in the mid-seventies, out of frustration with the terrible economic situation in Bangladesh I decided to see if I could make myself useful to one poor person a day in the village next door to the university campus where I was teaching. Since I did not have a road-map, I had to fall back on my basic instinct to do that. At any moment I could have withdrawn myself from my unknown path, but I did not. I stubbornly went on to find my own way. Luckily, at the end, I found it. That was microcredit.” Those words were spoken at MIT’s 2008 Commencement by Muhammad Yunus, who has used...
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Action Reflection: Steve Jobs
- October 13, 2011
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Reflecting on a few memorable sound bytes from the recently deceased chairman of Apple, Inc. “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” “I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.” Steve Jobs (1955-2011) ACTION: Ask a person you live or work with: “Tell me about something wonderful you’ve done together with others you’ll never forget”. After you have listened that story out of them, and if you have time, ask a follow-up question …or simply ask about a second example of “wonderful”....
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Breaking through Fear
- October 1, 2011
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Recent commemoration of the ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks reminded Americans of the fearless response of thousands to save and rescue victims. In particular, the passengers on Flight 93 heroically decided to crash the plane in an empty field near Shanksville, PA rather than let the hijackers cause even greater destruction. Can you be fearless in carrying out your most challenging and crucial assignments? Human history has countless stories of people who have been fearless. Being fearless is not being without fear. Fear is basic to being human and we all feel afraid at times. What’s important then is to observe what we do with our fear! Fearlessness simply means that we do not give fear the power to silence or stop us....
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