It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
02048 – Showing Your Dreams
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02003 – Change Comes from Sharing New Dreams
How it started is not as important as how it will end, so let go of what was and keep seeing what could be, for the change will not come from settling old arguments but from sharing new dreams.
01985 – Labeling: The Easy Way Out
When I label someone, I no longer have to deal with them thoughtfully. I don't have to feel overwhelmed by the fact of their complexity, the lives they live, the dreams they have. There's hardly any action quite so easy, so utterly unimaginative, as the affixing of a...
01763 – What Does Our Framing Story Tell Us?
If it [our framing story] tells us that the purpose of life is for individuals or nations to accumulate an abundance of possessions and to experience the maximum amount of pleasure during the maximum number of minutes of our short lives, then we will have little...
01755 – Children Need a Laptop
All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles--someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals, and knowledge of a hundred previous...
01625 – Love in Action vs. Love in Dreams
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in sight of all. People will give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on...
01602 – Teaching Has Imprint
You will teach them to fly, but they will not fly your flight. You will teach them to dream, but they will not dream your dream. You will teach them to live, but they will not live your life. Nevertheless, in every flight, in every life, in every dream, the print of...
01289 – Crazy Christians Among Us?
We need some Christians who are as crazy as the Lord. Crazy enough to love like Jesus, to give like Jesus, to forgive like Jesus, to do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with God--like Jesus. Crazy enough to dare to change the world from the nightmare it often is into...
01256 – Happiness Mostly Depends on Our Dispositions
Everybody needs to dream the dream of a better life, a better world. But there is such a thing as failing to accept life as it is to the point that we miss what is good about it, too. "The greatest part of our happiness," Martha Washington wrote, "depends on our...
00989 – “Free at Last! Free at Last!”
…And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jesus and Gentiles,...