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Book cover for This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
We recognize that there are many valuable things in life—love, community, safety, knowledge, and faith, to name just a few. But we allow just one value—money—to dominate everything else. Our potential for a more generous, moral, or fair ...more
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James P. Carse
“Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.”
James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games

Mark Manson
“Because pain is the universal constant of life, the opportunities to grow from that pain are constant in life. All that is required is that we don't numb it, that we don't look away. All that is required is that we engage it and find the value and meaning in it.”
Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

James P. Carse
“It is not the role of metaphor to draw our sight to what is there, but to draw our vision toward what is not there and, indeed, cannot be anywhere. Metaphor is horizonal, reminding us that it is one's vision that is limited, and not what one is viewing.”
James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

James P. Carse
“To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful… everything that happens is of consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility. To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for unlimited possibility.”
James Carse

Makoto Fujimura
“In order to be effective messengers of hope, we must begin by trusting our inner voice, an inner intuition that speaks into the vast wastelands of our time. This process requires training our imagination to see beyond tribal norms, to see the vista of the wider pastures of culture.”
Makoto Fujimura, Art and Faith: A Theology of Making

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