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Book cover for The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Reading his story is difficult but necessary. We need to learn things about our criminal justice system, about the legacy of racial bias in America and the way it can blind us to just and fair treatment of people.
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Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
“The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal, and not longer. And the person who can do this usually enjoys the normal course of everyday life.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Chip Heath
“Fundamental Attribution Error.” The error lies in our inclination to attribute people’s behavior to the way they are rather than to the situation they are in.”
Chip Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Chip Heath
“And that’s the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.”
Chip Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

“Our spiritual traditions have carried virtues across time. They are tools for the art of living. They are pieces of intelligence about human behavior that neuroscience is now exploring with new words and images: what we practice, we become. What’s true of playing the piano or throwing a ball also holds for our capacity to move through the world mindlessly and destructively or generously and gracefully. I’ve come to think of virtues and rituals as spiritual technologies for being our best selves in flesh and blood, time and space. There are superstar virtues that come most readily to mind and can be the work of a day or a lifetime—love, compassion, forgiveness. And there are gentle shifts of mind and habit that make those possible, working patiently through the raw materials of our lives.”
Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

“Generous listening is powered by curiosity, a virtue we can invite and nurture in ourselves to render it instinctive. It involves a kind of vulnerability—a willingness to be surprised, to let go of assumptions and take in ambiguity. The listener wants to understand the humanity behind the words of the other, and patiently summons one’s own best self and one’s own best words and questions.”
Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

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