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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
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“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.”
― Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
― Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
“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.”
― Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
― Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
“Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.”
― Finite and Infinite Games
― Finite and Infinite Games
“Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating useful regularities and seeks truth, it is obliged to legitimate the rules of its own game.”
― The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
― The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
“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.”
― Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
― Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
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