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Book Preview:Wholehearted Faith (2021) is a posthumous collection of essays by Rachel Held Evans, whose writings about being a progressive Christian have impacted and inspired multitudes of people throughout the world.
She explores what it means to have wholehearted faith in a society when everything drives you to doubt your religion, yourself, and everyone else by telling different...
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Get the Summary of Richard Walker's Relationship Equity in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Relationship Equity" by Richard Walker is a comprehensive exploration of the power of relationships in both personal and professional spheres. Walker shares his journey from a bricklayer in England to a successful IT professional in the United States, emphasizing the pivotal role that relationships have played in his life......
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#1 You can reinvent yourself and start over. You can get rid of the parts of your life that don't suit you and learn from your self-examination.
#2 Self-help books are like the subway train. Most people read them once and get a jolt of motivation, but fail to follow through with what was taught. I'm going to do my best to avoid these pitfalls.
#3 I won't tell you what...
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#1 The imagination is the workshop of man, where he creates the pattern of all his achievements. Some describe it as the workshop of the soul, where man's hopes and desires are made ready for material expression.
#2 There are two types of imagination: synthetic and creative. Synthetic imagination consists of the act of combining recognized ideas, concepts, plans, facts,...
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#1 The time has come for you to get a grip on yourself and take the first steps toward rebuilding yourself. This step may be small or hesitant: You're afraid to stumble again. Just remember that the first step is always the most difficult.
#2 It is necessary to accept the inevitable and to recognize and embrace what is harming you. This phase is necessary to first...
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#1 Forgiving the past is the only way to create a more loving, productive, and fulfilling life. Everything we do and experience in life is born from the energy we carry. People and experiences show up in response to the conscious and unconscious energetic invitations we issue.
#2 We can't clear our puppy mind thoughts until we learn how to meditate, and we can't release...
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#1 You may feel despair about the human condition. It seems impossible to solve the deeply embedded problems of crime, poverty, drug abuse, prejudice, and violence. But you can't figure out what to do about it.
#2 You arrive at work and are immediately called into a meeting. Another customer survey has come up with the same old message: They want better service...
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#1 We often forget that our parents are just human beings who were children like us once. They aren't perfect, and they have a lot of approval seeking and validation going on within them.
#2 My mother, who was born in Poland in 1942, was raised in poverty. She has never felt worthy of many of the good things that she deserves as a human being. But she was a single mom...
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#1 Stress is inevitable and omnipresent. It is a result of reacting psychologically and physically to the potential for change in our environment. Our bodies react by secreting stress chemicals and hormones.
#2 The HPA axis is activated when we are faced with a threat, and it doesn't have a well-defined end point. The stress chemicals are chronically secreted, and we...
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#1 When we received the call that our father had passed away, we knew it was a loss, but we were all still in denial. It was a difficult year that revealed us.
#2 Saje was told that her father had died. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. She began to sob. She didn't understand what was happening, and she couldn't process the information.
#3 After the...
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#1 When I was 15, I played Pepe, one of the Puerto Rican gang members, in a youth-theater production of West Side Story. I was playing Puerto Rican gang members, and I was made fun of for my race, appearance, and sexuality. But when someone insulted me for being Puerto Rican, I was furious.
#2 We live in our own separate realities. Our brains filter information through...
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#1 My husband, who was far from the nice Jewish boy I was supposed to marry, embodied most of the qualities that I had rejected in myself. He valued play, fun, leisure, and adventure over work. I had rejected these same qualities in myself, and so we were a match made in heaven.
#2 When we are children, we continue to act out our unconscious, habitual ways without any...
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#1 In San Diego, near the ocean, it's never bitterly cold or oppressively hot. I can appreciate the realities of the nonsublime weather in certain areas of the country, but in San Diego, it's always heavenly weather.
#2 I had spent the weekend cleaning and tidying up, but my closet didn't seem to belong to a person who claimed to live a thrifty life. My panic began...
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Get the Summary of Anthony Raymond's Ikigai Kaizen in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Ikigai Kaizen" by Anthony Raymond explores the concept of Lingchi, or "death by a thousand cuts," as a metaphor for how minor errors can accumulate and lead to significant problems in life. The book discusses the importance of self-discipline, the influence of social circles, and the necessity of managing fear and risk to achieve...
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#1 I have met so many spectacular women in the past decade who have inspired me, uplifted me, and given me new things to think about. I cannot express how much your love and support means to me.
#2 I want you to realize your radiance. I want you to come to terms with your innate goddess nature. I want you to figure out how fabulous you are. The universe is waiting for...
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#1 Parenting is one of the most difficult and stressful activities on the planet, and yet it is also one of the most important, as it impacts the heart and soul of the next generation and their experience of meaning and connection.
#2 As parents, we are tasked with the difficult and challenging job of raising children. We take on this task without a salary, often unexpectedly,...
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#1 The first key to discipline is awareness of the need for and value of discipline, especially the discipline to make the necessary changes. Willingness and commitment are the second and third keys to discipline, respectively.
#2 Discipline is the process of putting a lid on temper and courtesy, and developing the positive and controlling the negative. It is the continuing...
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#1 The shadow is the dark side of human nature, and it exists for everyone. It is a human creation, not a cosmic force or a universal curse. It can't be cured, but it can be diminished.
#2 The shadow is not a result of demonic possession. It is a result of failed ideals that once seemed like perfect solutions. Each solution matches a picture of what the dark side...
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#1 We are constantly being fed a virtual reality, and it is up to us to decide whether we want to get lost in it or not. The world out there is real, but the physical world feels real and substantial more than 99 percent of the time.
#2 The ground rules of everyday life are much looser than we imagine. We can escape the simulation by going to the source and being part...
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#1 The first part of your journey is called Separation. You must detach yourself from what you've known up until now. This Separation is a form of death, but it is also a form of rebirth. You are about to transform before your eyes, and you must be prepared for the obstacles that will arise.
#2 The most successful people in the world keep a childlike approach to life....
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