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Don't Try This Alone: How to Build Deep Community When You Want to Hide from Your Pain

by Toni Collier (Goodreads Author)

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Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life

by Henri J.M. Nouwen

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Small Pleasures (The School of Life Library)

by The School of Life

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Irene’s Quotes

“Don't buy the lie that a full schedule means productivity or holiness or achievement.”
― Jefferson Bethke, To Hell with the Hustle

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“Silence and solitude are like a graveyard for all the worst in you and your false self.”
― Jefferson Bethke, To Hell with the Hustle

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“Not unlike Jesus in Luke: “Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed” (Luke 5:16). Jesus voluntarily withdrew to the lonely places. On purpose.”
― Jefferson Bethke, To Hell with the Hustle: Reclaiming Your Life in an Overworked, Overspent, and Overconnected World

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“Our current hustle culture is no different; it’s all about exceeding limits. It’s about striving for that false freedom to do this. Eat that. Work this way. Just. Work. Harder. Network more. Just buy my masterclass and you, too, can be a millionaire by age nineteen.”
― Jefferson Bethke, To Hell with the Hustle: Reclaiming Your Life in an Overworked, Overspent, and Overconnected World

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“spiritually thin and malnourished. Henri Nouwen, one of my favorite spiritual thinkers, said about his experience with silence and solitude: “Solitude is not a private therapeutic place. Rather, it is the place of conversion, the place where the old self dies and the new self is born.”8 It’s not a therapeutic place. It’s where you go to die.”
― Jefferson Bethke, To Hell with the Hustle: Reclaiming Your Life in an Overworked, Overspent, and Overconnected World

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