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DIG Deep = "get deliberate, inspired, & going" Deliberate in their thoughts and behaviors through prayer, meditation, or simply by setting intentions; Inspired to make new and different choices; Going. They take action.
Brené Brown
Love without truth and honor is licentious in nature. Love without commitment is promiscuous and fleeting. Love without virtue and understanding is savage and selfish. Love without respect is short-lived. Love without these conditions is without God.
David W. Stevens
True sacrifice is merely self-control.
David W. Stevens (In the Presence of God - A Book of Truth)
বন্ধুত্ব তখনই গাঢ় হয় যখন কেউ কাউকে চিনে না।
Humayun Ahmed (হিমু এবং হার্ভার্ড Ph.D. বল্টু ভাই (হিমু, #21))
Clearing clutter—be it physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual—brings about ease and inspires a sense of peace, calm, and tranquility.
Laurie Buchanan
Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to buy and read a book at your own volition to obtain an information for your self-development? Knowledge doesn't chase people; people chase knowledge and information.
Israelmore Ayivor
If you're thinking, 'Great! I just need to be a superhero to fight perfectionism,' I understand. Courage, compassion, and connection seem like big, lofty ideals. But in reality, they are daily practices that, when exercised enough, become these incredible gifts in our lives. And the good news is that our vulnerabilities are what force us to call upon these amazing tools. Because we're human and so beautifully imperfect, we get to practice using our tools on a daily basis. In this way, courage, compassion, and connection become gifts - the gifts of imperfection.
Brené Brown
It is no longer enough to just think or talk about what a spiritual connection is, or what it might be. We begin living it fully, one moment at a time." From "Living Beyond the Five Senses
Teresa L. DeCicco, PhD
In moments of great change we suffer, somehow hoping deep down that our emotions and our dramas can change the future or prevent it from happening. Future happens regardless.
Dragos Bratasanu
Black people in America, the descendants of slaves-the despised, mistreated, and shunned-are the most resilient people in the United States. (from... How to Move Black America Forward)
Eddie Taylor
Unlike the hollow, risk-pursuing few who are deprived of a seventh sense [conscience], you will go through your life fully aware of the warm and comforting, infuriating, confusing, compelling, and sometimes joyful presence of other human beings, and along with your conscience you will be given the chance to take the largest risk of all, which, as we all know, is to love.
Martha Manier
I'm often asked, "What is the secret to happiness?" My reply? The secret to happiness is simple. And it begins with gratitude.
Sophia Godkin, PhD
There will never be another you. The planet desperately needs your unique purpose, passion and presence.
Julie Reisler (Get a PhD in YOU: A Course in Miraculous Self-Discovery)
You cannot be afraid of the unknown. In every moment and with every step you take, the unknown becomes the known.
Dragos Bratasanu (Sleepers: A Little Book on How to Find Hope, Meaning and the Courage to Fall in Love with Your Dreams)
With every dream and with every love, you have to die to the old, and be reborn to the new. You must leave what you know behind, and surrender to the unknown.
Dragos Bratasanu
What you do for others, God will do for you.
Dragos Bratasanu
There is only one way to make your dream a reality: make the decision and then not change it.
Dragos Bratasanu
In the pursuit of dreams, we all have different beginnings. Your past is not negotiable. You must let go of the hope for a better past.
Dragos Bratasanu
A BS in any neuroscience without a master's or PhD was a three-legged dog of a degree: pitiable, adorable, and capable of inspiring applause when it did anything for you at all.
Daryl Gregory (Afterparty)
When we are restless, it only implies that we are everywhere else but in the moment.
Jacinta Mpalyenkana
Great achievers see failure as a stepping stone to success.
Godwin Elendu Ph.D
Work with whatever tool you may have at your disposal, and you shall find better tool as you go ahead.
Godwin Elendu Ph.D
The reason why we get the same partners is not because people are the same, but because we pull the dark shadow of past hurts over our eyes and we live the same all over again. We change the actors, but never the masks we give them in our play.
Dragos Bratasanu
The most powerful affirmation doesn’t come from the conscious mind but from your Soul, an affirmation in which you are not trying to convince yourself of something you don’t believe, but rather you are becoming aware of the truth and the reality of what you truly are.
Dragos Bratasanu
Establishing yourself as a scientist takes an awfully long time. The riskiest part is learning what a true scientist is and then taking the first shaky steps down that path, which will become a road, which will become a highway, which will maybe someday lead you home. A true scientist doesn’t perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge. This transition between doing what you’re told and telling yourself what to do generally occurs midway through a dissertation. In many ways, it is the most difficult and terrifying thing that a student can do, and being unable or unwilling to do it is much of what weeds people out of Ph.D. programs.
Hope Jahren (Lab Girl)
From this moment forward, I will admit to my mind for mental consumption only those ideas and thoughts that heal, bless, inspire, and strengthen.
Joseph Murphy
Just as you can never squeeze water out of the water, you can never squeeze the good out of goodness: You simply tap into the good by positioning yourself and allowing it.
Jacinta Mpalyenkana
In essence, all of our words evoke, develop, and bring forth our reality. We always have the power to choose our words and our reality.
Julie Reisler (Get a PhD in YOU: A Course in Miraculous Self-Discovery)
You cannot conquer the mind of a man, if you do not know his heart and you cannot win over his heart, if so you do not know his mind.
Anita B. Sulser
Sometimes the best solution is the most painful option
Jacinta Mpalyenkana
Regardless of what you lose or the challenges you face, you will never lose your power to make decisions
Jacinta Mpalyenkana
The holiest place on Earth, is not a temple or a church, but our relationship to one another.
Dragos Bratasanu
The only way to heal is to help others heal, and the only way to find love and keep love in our lives is to give it to others.
Dragos Bratasanu
Beauty becomes beautiful only when it is shared with others.
Dragos Bratasanu
If love is what we are, then every human interaction is an opportunity to express ourselves.
Dragos Bratasanu (Sleepers: A Little Book on How to Find Hope, Meaning and the Courage to Fall in Love with Your Dreams)
It's always your assumptions about you, about others, about future that make reality worse than it actually is.
Dragos Bratasanu
When you act against gravity, you break your body. When you act against Love, you break your heart.
Dragos Bratasanu
The person you fall in love with only holds a mirror for you to see the pieces of yourself that you have lost, given away, or were taken away from you in the process of life.
Dragos Bratasanu
When your pockets are empty, go where your heart is full.
Dragos Bratasanu (The Pursuit of Dreams: Claim Your Power, Follow Your Heart, and Fulfill Your Destiny)
If you cannot find a reason to be grateful for today, be grateful for you have the sky.
Dragos Bratasanu
The only way to make your dreams a reality is to live your truth. To embrace your truth, and embrace it with love.
Dragos Bratasanu
Thinking about the future is the worst way of thinking about the future. Working on your future is the best way of thinking about your future.
Dragos Bratasanu
If you lie to yourself, you become your worst enemy, attacking from inside. (from The Amazing You movie)
Dragos Bratasanu
There is value hidden in every problem: Don't waste it
Jacinta Mpalyenkana
We only get to receive what we internally give to ourselves through the programming of our internal representations.
Jacinta Mpalyenkana
The most essential step in marketing your services is selecting an occupation you can throw yourself into wholeheartedly.
Godwin Elendu Ph.D
You must be a starter and a finisher, the slogan “press on” has solved a lot of problem.
Godwin Elendu Ph.D
So many businesses today have wind-up because of fear of failing.
Godwin Elendu Ph.D
Beauty without vanity, Strength without insolence, Courage without ferocity, All the virtues of man, without his vices... The Dog Beautiful
Theresa Wright
Ice Sometimes, the only things barring you from Christ's Blessings-- Are the icicles surrounding your heart?
Theresa Rough PhD (Hundredfold Baroque Pearls)
One of the most vital goals in life is to be consistently inspired to be flexible to change, so that we can easily take on different strategies until we arrive at our desired destination
Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, PhD, MBA
For thousands of years humanity has been trying to answer the question: “Do we have life after death?” Maybe for the first time you must now answer the question: “Do I really have a life before death?
Dragos Bratasanu (Sleepers: A Little Book on How to Find Hope, Meaning and the Courage to Fall in Love with Your Dreams)
To unmask is to lay bare a proud face of noncompliance, to refuse to be silenced, to stop being compartmentalized and hidden away, and to stand powerfully in our wholeness alongside other disabled and marginalized folks. Together we can stand strong and free, shielded by the powerful, radical acceptance that comes only when we know who we are, and with the recognition that we never had anything to hide.
Devon Price (Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity)
It is interesting that there can be gun turn-ins and buy-backs in Black neighborhoods and at the same time there are gun shows on the other side of town. (excerpt from "How to Move Black America Forward")
Eddie Taylor
The integration movement was for access to what America provided for Americans. When Black America wanted integration, the aim was deeply rooted in what it means to be an America, as well as having access to American opportunities.
Eddie Taylor
People will always tell you what they think you should or should not do. But your life is only between you and God. If you have doubts whether what you’re doing is right or wrong, before you make any decision, look up and ask God. You will always know the answer.
Dragos Bratasanu
One of the first people I interviewed was Alvy Ray Smith, a charismatic Texan with a Ph.D. in computer science and a sparkling resume that included teaching stints at New York University and UC Berkeley and a gig at Xerox PARC, the distinguished R&D lab in Palo Alto. I had conflicting feelings when I met Alvy because, frankly, he seemed more qualified to lead the lab than I was. I can still remember the uneasiness in my gut, that instinctual twinge spurred by a potential threat: This, I thought, could be the guy who takes my job one day. I hired him anyway.
Ed Catmull (Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration)
Dr. Mary Atwater's story was so inspiring. Growing up, Dr. Atwater had a dream to one day be a teacher. But as a black person in the American South during the 1950s, she didn't have many great educational opportunities. It didn't help that she was also a girl, and a girl who loved science, since many believed that science was a subject only for men. Well, like me, she didn't listen to what others said. And also like me, Dr. Atwater had a father, Mr. John C. Monroe, who believed in her dreams and saved money to send her and her siblings to college. She eventually got a PhD in science education with a concentration in chemistry. She was an associate director at New Mexico State University and then taught physical science and chemistry at Fayetteville State University. She later joined the University of Georgia, where she still works as a science education researcher. Along the way, she began writing science books, never knowing that, many years down the road, one of those books would end up in Wimbe, Malawi, and change my life forever. I'd informed Dr. Atwater that the copy of Using Energy I'd borrowed so many times had been stolen (probably by another student hoping to get the same magic), so that day in Washington, she presented me with my own copy, along with the teacher's edition and a special notebook to record my experiments. "Your story confirms my belief in human beings and their abilities to make the world a better place by using science," she told me. "I'm happy that I lived long enough to see that something I wrote could change someone's life. I'm glad I found you." And for sure, I'm also happy to have found Dr. Atwater.
William Kamkwamba (The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope)
Psychologist and mindfulness expert David Richo, Ph.D., has focused on how these healthy connections are formed and what is needed to keep them alive. He describes the “5 A’s” as the qualities and gifts we all naturally seek out from the important people in our lives, including family, friends, and especially partners. What are these 5 A’s? • Attention—genuine interest in you, what you like and dislike, what inspires and motivates you without being overbearing or intrusive. You experience being heard and noticed. • Acceptance—genuinely embracing your interests, desires, activities, and preferences as they are without trying to alter or change them in any way. • Affection—physical comforting as well as compassion. • Appreciation—encouragement and gratitude for who you are, as you are. • Allowing—it is safe to be yourself and express all that you feel, even if it is not entirely polite or socially acceptable. What Richo is describing, in essence, are those genuine needs we have that form the basis of secure, healthy relationships. The 5 A’s are what we all should have received most of the time from our caregivers when we were growing up. They are also what we want in our adult relationships today. In his book How to Be an Adult in Relationships, Richo compares and contrasts the 5 A’s with what happens in unhealthy or unequal relationships.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz (You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life)
Life is about surprises. Sometimes filling us with unexpected joy and, at other times, inviting us to face them. With all their might, reverence, and astonishing forces of nature, dancing to their rhythm, cycle, and flight. Weaving. Weaving their threads into our human life. And within their flow, we humans can only stand breathless before their magnificent force. Washing us away from one self to another, taking us through whirlpools and whirlwinds, spitting us out on new shores, never to return. Inviting us to awake and live our lives with attentiveness to the truth that walks in our hearts. To live our life by choice.
Efrat Shokef Ph.D.
When I launched my AI career in 1983, I did so by waxing philosophic in my application to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. I described AI as “the quantification of the human thinking process, the explication of human behavior,” and our “final step” to understanding ourselves. It was a succinct distillation of the romantic notions in the field at that time and one that inspired me as I pushed the bounds of AI capabilities and human knowledge. Today, thirty-five years older and hopefully a bit wiser, I see things differently. The AI programs that we’ve created have proven capable of mimicking and surpassing human brains at many tasks. As a researcher and scientist, I’m proud of these accomplishments. But if the original goal was to truly understand myself and other human beings, then these decades of “progress” got me nowhere. In effect, I got my sense of anatomy mixed up. Instead of seeking to outperform the human brain, I should have sought to understand the human heart. It’s a lesson that it took me far too long to learn. I have spent much of my adult life obsessively working to optimize my impact, to turn my brain into a finely tuned algorithm for maximizing my own influence. I bounced between countries and worked across time zones for that purpose, never realizing that something far more meaningful and far more human lay in the hearts of the family members, friends, and loved ones who surrounded me. It took a cancer diagnosis and the unselfish love of my family for me to finally connect all these dots into a clearer picture of what separates us from the machines we build. That process changed my life, and in a roundabout way has led me back to my original goal of using AI to reveal our nature as human beings. If AI ever allows us to truly understand ourselves, it will not be because these algorithms captured the mechanical essence of the human mind. It will be because they liberated us to forget about optimizations and to instead focus on what truly makes us human: loving and being loved. Reaching that point will require hard work and conscious choices by all of us. Luckily, as human beings, we possess the free will to choose our own goals that AI still lacks. We can choose to come together, working across class boundaries and national borders to write our own ending to the AI story. Let us choose to let machines be machines, and let humans be humans. Let us choose to simply use our machines, and more importantly, to love one another.
Kai-Fu Lee (AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order)
What a joy this book is! I love recipe books, but it’s short-lived; I enjoy the pictures for several minutes, read a few pages, and then my eyes glaze over. They are basically books to be used in the kitchen for one recipe at a time. This book, however, is in a different class altogether and designed to be read in its entirety. It’s in its own sui generis category; it has recipes at the end of most of the twenty-one chapters, but it’s a book to be read from cover to cover, yet it could easily be read chapter by chapter, in any order, as they are all self-contained. Every bite-sized chapter is a flowing narrative from a well-stocked brain encompassing Balinese culture, geography and history, while not losing its main focus: food. As you would expect from a scholar with a PhD in history from Columbia University, the subject matter has been meticulously researched, not from books and articles and other people’s work, but from actually being on the ground and in the markets and in the kitchens of Balinese families, where the Balinese themselves learn their culinary skills, hands on, passed down orally, manually and practically from generation to generation. Vivienne Kruger has lived in Bali long enough to get it right. That’s no mean feat, as the subject has not been fully studied before. Yes, there are so-called Balinese recipe books, most, if I’m not mistaken, written by foreigners, and heavily adapted. The dishes have not, until now, been systematically placed in their proper cultural context, which is extremely important for the Balinese, nor has there been any examination of the numerous varieties of each type of recipe, nor have they been given their true Balinese names. This groundbreaking book is a pleasure to read, not just for its fascinating content, which I learnt a lot from, but for the exuberance, enthusiasm and originality of the language. There’s not a dull sentence in the book. You just can’t wait to read the next phrase. There are eye-opening and jaw-dropping passages for the general reader as Kruger describes delicacies from the village of Tengkudak in Tabanan district — grasshoppers, dragonflies, eels and live baby bees — and explains how they are caught and cooked. She does not shy away from controversial subjects, such as eating dog and turtle. Parts of it are not for the faint-hearted, but other parts make you want to go out and join the participants, such as the Nusa Lembongan fishermen, who sail their outriggers at 5.30 a.m. The author quotes Miguel Covarrubias, the great Mexican observer of the 1930s, who wrote “The Island of Bali.” It has inspired all writers since, including myself and my co-author, Ni Wayan Murni, in our book “Secrets of Bali, Fresh Light on the Morning of the World.” There is, however, no bibliography, which I found strange at first. I can only imagine it’s a reflection of how original the subject matter is; there simply are no other sources. Throughout the book Kruger mentions Balinese and Indonesian words and sometimes discusses their derivations. It’s a Herculean task. I was intrigued to read that “satay” comes from the Tamil word for flesh ( sathai ) and that South Indians brought satay to Southeast Asia before Indonesia developed its own tradition. The book is full of interesting tidbits like this. The book contains 47 recipes in all, 11 of which came from Murni’s own restaurant, Murni’s Warung, in Ubud. Mr Dolphin of Warung Dolphin in Lovina also contributed a number of recipes. Kruger adds an introduction to each recipe, with a detailed and usually very personal commentary. I think my favorite, though, is from a village priest (pemangku), I Made Arnila of the Ganesha (Siwa) Temple in Lovina. water. I am sure most will enjoy this book enormously; I certainly did.” Review published in The Jakarta Globe, April 17, 2014. Jonathan Copeland is an author and photographer based in Bali. thejakartaglobe/features/spiritual-journey-culinary-world-bali
Vivienne Kruger
As Cosmic Vibration, all things are one; but when Cosmic Vibration becomes frozen into matter, it becomes many--including man's body, which is a part of this variously divided matter.* (*footnote: Recent advances in what theoretical physicists call 'superstring theory' are leading science toward an understanding of the vibratory nature of creation. Brian Greene, Ph.D., professor of physics at Cornell and Columbia Universities, writes in The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (New York: Vintage Books, 2000): 'During the last thirty years of his life, Albert Einstein sought relentlessly for a so-called unified field theory--a theory capable of describing nature's forces within a single, all-encompassing, coherent framework...Now, at the dawn of the new millennium, proponents of string theory claim that the threads of this elusive unified tapestry finally have been revealed...' 'The theory suggests that the microscopic landscape is suffused with tiny strings whose vibrational patterns orchestrate the evolution of the universe,' Professor Greene writes, and tells us that 'the length of a typical string loop is...about a hundred billion billion (1020) times smaller than an atomic nucleus.')
Paramahansa Yogananda (The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You (Self-Realization Fellowship) 2 Volume Set)
Think in Abundance terms: create more love and support in your life, create more time for meditation and stillness to be able to connect with your Inner Self. In this vast Universe, nothing is wasted and everything is necessary so tap into the abundance that is already there
Ana García (Inspirational Quotes: Practical Spirituality 1)
We need to look at the bottom energy line in our systems. If there is something robbing us of energy, be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual, we won't be able to shift
Ana García
You are always in the right place and at the right time. Accept it and embrace as it is a springboard to achieving your dreams
Ana García (Inspirational Quotes: Practical Spirituality 1)
If we change our thoughts, we change our lives, therefore we change our future and our destiny... and this is within our hands' reach" "Tales of a Modern Alchemist" Dr Ana Garcia PhD DTM
Ana García
If your fists are clenched and your hands are closed to accept your gifts, the universe cannot, nor does it want to, force you to receive them. It is a matter of free will
Ana García (Inspirational Quotes: Practical Spirituality 1)
Our external reality is a mirror of our internal truth. Any changes that we want taking place in our external world must first be engineered, thought of, become aware of and carried out in the inside
Ana García (Inspirational Quotes: Practical Spirituality 1)
Accept everything your life offers your right now, even if you think you are in the wrong job or the wrong relationship because this is the basis of your dream: a necessary lesson
Ana García (Inspirational Quotes: Practical Spirituality 1)
Learn to live your spirituality as an adventure by paying attention to the different levels. You may not be able to explain it to others but it will become your own reality
Ana García
At what level are we going to force others to accept our wise advice? At what level are we going to limit their life lessons? Have we forgotten that the only way to teach others is by example?
Ana García (Inspirational Quotes: Practical Spirituality 1)
The work of the Alchemist is to transmute negativity into gold: the highest vibration of illumination, love and compassion. And in this frequency, anything else is a mirage which will have to transmute into becoming harimonious or "real" ... we are "realizing" our destiny" "Tales of a Modern Alchemist" By Dr Ana Garcia PhD DTM
Ana García
If we believe only what we see instead of what we are able to do, we shut down the process of creation
Ana García
Give yourself the benefit of tapping into possibilities that you never knew that existed for you and be brave enough to step into the adventure of the unknown
Ana García (Inspirational Quotes: Practical Spirituality 1)
An illness is crystallised vibration. It is a marker telling you where you have stopped on your path and it forces you to take stock and make a new choice... Or not!
Ana García
We dismiss our power when we refuse to believe in, and be patient with, the creative process
Ana García
Our dreams are as real as reality itself... only in a different dimension
Ana García
Experiment and experience that which you think you are ready for. Don't leave it for tomorrow and don't procrastinate: the moment is now
Ana García
If you can find the seed of compassion in your heart to send it to any person, place or situation who needs it, you will see right in front of your eyes the incredible miracle of your life healing in joy and bliss
Ana García (Inspirational Quotes: Practical Spirituality 1)
I wanted to write my story inspirationally to encourage young people to pursue their education as life’s most worthwhile goal. And I want to emphasize that my belief is that education is for everybody according to their suitability, aptitude, and resources. It doesn’t have to be academic or vocational, but it has to be mind-opening. Education is not merely specializing in a field, scientific or humanistic; education is preparing the mind for a more objective way of thinking, allowing light to enter the darkness and leaving some light behind; education means pushing ignorance aside, avoiding it, fighting it, and keeping it sequestered. It means becoming a higher human by cultivating the highest of our assets, our minds.
Demetrius Koubourlis
Just because it is happening to your body, doesn't mean it is happening to you.
Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, PhD, MBA
By elevating the level of our awareness, we can access and retain the unlimited power of our being, and every one of us can create miracles that heal and inspire our lives.
Mark Peakman
You were born to be unique, so begin to accept the "standing out" is good.
Melita Murray-Carney ,Ph.D.
The More We Know - The More We Grow
Maurice J. Turmel PhD (Breaking the Spell of Religion: & Healing the Trauma)
We must note that self-help books can become an addiction in and of themselves, and that at some point we must get on with the painful business of actually living our lives differently, rather than just thinking or learning about how that might be.
John C. Friel (Adult Children Secrets of Dysfunctional Families 1st (first) edition Text Only)
If you want to control anyone give them hungers, from heads their brains shift to stomach, Even if they are PhD holders, they'll be bought just for two leaves of spinach.
Geofrey P Machimu (My Favorite Dose : Poetic therapy)
Awaken to your personal power. Advocate for yourself and your dreams. Learn to Accelerate You! The world needs your leadership.
Jeri Childers PhD
When you’re in your power, you make an impact not by reacting to the behavior of people who are limited, but rather by raising yourself and others to be limitless.
Sharon Melnick, PhD
You are responsible for your emotions. Your emotions represent the chemical gateway for spiritual transformation.
Tova Sardot, Phd
Your relationship to duality consciousness determines the level of suffering you experience as a human.
Tova Sardot, Phd
You don't have to be a PhD to be an activist," she said as we talked one evening, after I'd shared my worries about not having been able to move forward with my education as quickly as I wanted to. Katrarine didn't discourage me from pursuing my school goals, but she also told me I didn't need to wait for a piece of paper to give me permission to try to make a difference in the world." I don't even know where to start with this one. I guess I'll with the simplest. Anyone can make a difference in the world.
Toufah Jallow (Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement)
You don't have to know how to go on, to go on.
Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, PhD, MBA
BOOKS THAT GREATLY INSPIRED ME AND THAT YOU SHOULD CONSIDER READING (in no particular order) Beyond the Culture of Contest by Michael Karlberg A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt The Family Virtues Guide by Linda Kavelin Popov, Dan Popov, and John Kavelin The Second Mountain by David Brooks High Conflict by Amanda Ripley The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh The Seven Mysteries of Life by Guy Murchie Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein The Story of Our Time by Robert Atkinson Global Unitive Healing by Dr. Elena Mustakova What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck How Should We Live? by Roman Krznaric The God Equation by Michio Kaku Einstein’s God by Krista Tippett What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Rob Bell Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff Help, Thanks, Wow by Anne Lamott See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur Plays Well with Others by Eric Barker Narrow Road to the Interior by Matsuo Bashō The Soul’s Code by James Hillman The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss by David Bentley Hart The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton The Awakened Brain by Lisa Miller, PhD The Hidden Words by Baha’u’llah
Rainn Wilson (Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution)
You can only be futured in a future that you invested in
Emesobi Peter Emenike (PhD)
Families are a journey – Sometimes Calm, sometimes Stormy, Often greater than we think we can withstand. Until the storm calms down and we look in our mirror grateful for the beauty and growth it uncovered.
Efrat Shokef Ph.D.
Jason Fritzler, a distinguished scientist and educator with a PhD in microbiology, excels in infectious diseases and clinical diagnostics. His pioneering research focuses on combating infectious diseases and enhancing patient care, impacting public health significantly. As an inspiring coach, Jason motivates others to excel, showcasing his dedication to microbiology and educational leadership.
Jason Fritzler
You’re a living altar, made of earth, air, fire, and water, with the blood of your ancestors flowing inside and the breath of Spirit inspiring you. Wherever you are, the Holy is present, and transformation is possible.
Ahriana Platten, Ph.D
We all are products of our environment and upbringing, but we don't have to be prisoners of them.
Gwynette Ford Lacy Ph.D. MBA
We make an altar on the base of what was once one of the columns within the temple. We bring grain, seeds, fruits, and flowers. A beautiful pattern emerges as each woman places her offerings on the altar. Someone brings honey and then everything is wet and glistening. We join hands again, this time around the altar we have created. We breathe deeply and draw the beauty, the nourishing power the earth has given and we have brought to the site, into ourselves. Then we reenact the story. Our telling, inspired by Charlene Spretnak, rejects the rape of Persephone as a patriarchal addition. We speak of season and cycle, mother and daughter. As one of us tells the story, two move to the center of the circle and enact the drama. Here at the place of the separation of mother and daughter, we begin to tell our own stories. Our stories of separation between mother and daughter. We speak of daughters taken away from their mothers by angry husbands. We speak of times when our mothers did not understand our lives. We speak of times when we did not understand our mothers. We speak of alcoholic mothers. We speak of daughters who made their mothers fear. We speak of loss. We speak of separation. We speak of anger. We cry. We cry together. We embrace one another. We embrace each other as mother and as daughter. The healing begins. From "Eleusinian Mysteries" featured in The Goddess Celebrates: an Anthology of Women's Rituals, Edited by Diane Stein, published in 1991. The quotes from this ritual excerpt, which are not included here due to length restrictions credit Charlene Spretnak and her book, Lost Goddesses of Early Greece, published in 1978.
Carol P. Christ, Ph.D.