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All the forces at play within us and without seem to be centrifugal forces, pulling us apart. I remain interested in understanding the nature of these forces. The critical conversation remains important. But I’m increasingly interested in how we might find and deploy alternative ways of being in the world. What are the practices that will sustain us? Silence may be just such a practice, and we may do well to experiment with whatever possibilities are afforded to us to enter into silence and to allow silence to enter into us.
The Thing That Is Silence
The Convivial Society
The 1970s ended postwar, bipartisan, middle-class America, and with it the two relatively stable narratives of getting ahead and the fair shake. In their place, four rival narratives have emerged, four accounts of America’s moral identity.
George Packer
theatlantic.com
Francis of Assisi
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Pilgrimage to Eternity
Tim Egan
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