Tag: passions
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The tragedy of modern life
“… a tragedy of our modern life is that everything is interesting but nothing becomes deeply important.” – Walker Percy We like to dabble, to check things out, to explore what’s new and novel. But when we get distracted by the merely interesting – and there is plenty of it – we lose focus on…
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The burden of necessary achievement
“Lift the weight of necessary achievement.” When I realized I wasn’t a prodigy, I could exhale, I could join the larger world. Too often, we become burdened by the high expectations of others, as well as the unrealistic, self-imposed pressures to achieve. We find ourselves living within a closed room of our own making, walled…