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Joel Hansen
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This is how God’s kingdom is passed down from one generation to the next, without pride. If our hope is placed in what we can accomplish, we end up with an Ishmael and the Law. But the Gospel excludes all human pride; we can only boast in
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“To gauge the soul we must gauge it with God, for the Ground of God and the Ground of the Soul are one and the same. Eckhart”
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
“In those respects in which the soul is unlike God, it is also unlike itself. St. Bernard”
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
“Public libraries seem to me a powerful example of the way that gift economies can coexist with market economies, at a larger scale. . . to me, they embody the civic-scale practice of a gift economy and the notion of common property. Libraries are models of gift economies, providing free access not only to books but also music, tools, seeds, and more. We don't each have to own everything. The books at the library belong to everyone. . . Take the books, enjoy them, bring them back so someone else can enjoy them, with literary abundance for all. And all you need is a library card, which is a kind of agreement to respect and take care of the common good.”
― The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
― The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
“The discussion on motivation of work usually considers only the first problem, namely whether this or that incentive increases the economic productivity of the worker, but not the second, that of his human productivity”
― The Sane Society
― The Sane Society
“Turn the love faucet on and leave it on.”
― Desert Trained Warriors: God's Hidden Leaders Emerging from the Wilderness in the Power of the Holy Spirit
― Desert Trained Warriors: God's Hidden Leaders Emerging from the Wilderness in the Power of the Holy Spirit
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