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Tag: vocation

Brother David Steindl Rast
Book Bits

‘How Can I Best Serve the World?’: Brother David Steindl-Rast on Finding Our True Vocation

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 Vanessa Able

Brother David on doing what you love, being aware of your gifts, and bringing your best self to the table.

Tagged bliss, discernment, gifts, Gratitude, Longing, Silence, vocation, WisdomLeave a comment
Natalia Ginzburg
Book Bits

Their Love of Life Should Never Weaken

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Pursuing our vocations and allowing our children the space to develop their own, are, according to Natalia Ginzburg, paramount in raising healthy children and developing healthy relationships with them as they grow.

Tagged Children, education, love of life, passion, Silence, Virtue, vocation2 Comments

TOP POSTS

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    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • The Lesson of a Tree - Walt Whitman
    The Lesson of a Tree - Walt Whitman
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • Mark J. Mitchell - Lazy Afternoon Poem
    Mark J. Mitchell - Lazy Afternoon Poem
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    Only Justice Can Stop a Curse

- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • Mark J. Mitchell – Lazy Afternoon Poem
    Longtime San Francisco-based poet Mark J. Mitchell eases readers into the warm heavy heart of summer with his "Lazy Afternoon Poem".
  • A Year of Kō: 10th Sekki
    10th Sekki poems by JOSPEH PALMER, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Erica Miriam Fabri – The Bride and the Wolf
    Brooklyn poet Erica Miriam Fabri presents a dialogue of love, loss, and acceptance in her dramatic and melancholic "The Bride and the Wolf".
  • Francis Weeks – Unfinished
    In five brief lines, Francis Weeks' "Unfinished" has encompassed life, death, and the endless continuation of life.
  • A Year of Kō: 9th Sekki
    9th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, COLEMAN DAVIS and ELLIOT DIAMOND

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