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I loved this book. It was inspirational and packed foul of lessons that if applied could make a profound difference in our youths lives. I have been teaching police interaction with juveniles this year and this book I now recommend as must reading fo
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The years pass, and a lifetime seems to go by in an instant. I’m told that the young boy is a grandfather now. He has lived a life that should be an example for everyone who achieves greatness of how to be humble and unselfish and how to
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“Reflection gives the brain an opportunity to pause amidst the chaos, untangle, and sort through observations and experiences, consider multiple interpretations, and create meaning… This meaning becomes learning.”
― My Green Notebook: "Know Thyself" Before Changing Jobs
― My Green Notebook: "Know Thyself" Before Changing Jobs
“Contemplative prayer is a deepening of faith that moves beyond thoughts and concepts. One just listens to God, open and receptive to the divine presence in one’s inmost being as its source. One listens not with a view to hearing something, but with a view to becoming aware of the obstacles to one’s friendship with God.”
― The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation
― The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation
“As Edward O. Wilson says, “In our daily lives we imagine ourselves to be aware of everything in the immediate environment. In fact, we sense fewer than one thousandth of one percent of the diversity of molecules and energy waves that constantly sweep around and through us.”
― Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change
― Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change
“The false self is looking for fame, power, wealth, and prestige. The unconscious is very powerful until the divine light of the Holy Spirit penetrates to its depths and reveals its dynamics. Here is where the great teaching of the dark nights of St. John of the Cross corresponds to depth psychology, only the work of the Holy Spirit goes far deeper. Instead of trying to free us from what interferes with our ordinary human life, the Spirit calls us to transformation of our inmost being, and indeed of all our faculties, into the divine way of being and acting.”
― The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation
― The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation
“Through pursuing the path with friends and the promptings of life, I began to see that my way forward was through the conscious development of qualities born from what I understood as “heart,” such as care and compassion, and replacing judgmental reactiveness with more kindness.”
― Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart
― Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart
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Dr. Ken Lang is a retired detective from the Baltimore County Police Department. During his tenure, he spent 15 years investigating violent crimes, in ...more
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