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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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“Therefore, poets do not 'fit' into society, not because a place is denied them but because they do not take their 'places' seriously. They openly see its roles as theatrical, its styles as poses, its clothing costumes, its rules conventional, its crises arranged, its conflicts performed and its metaphysics ideological.”
― Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
― Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
“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
“Maturity comes when we tend to our inner children and don’t inflict them on our partners to care for.”
― Us: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship
― Us: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship
“Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.”
― Finite and Infinite Games
― Finite and Infinite Games
“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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