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The Man, the Myth, and the Method: Wim Hof Is Changing the World!
The Iceman has become more cultural icon than wellness brand for his hugely popular combination of breathwork and cold exposure.
Like a Virgin
Mud-streaked Bernadette, witness to the apparition of Our Lady of the Grotto, is the illogical face of faith, and she was sanctified and reviled for it. Bernadette was either holy or mad, and nothing in between.
A surrealist’s dream
The task is to allow God-as-us and we-as-God freedom of movement, to love radically, ceaselessly, hopelessly in the times beyond all reasonable hope.
The false intimacy of collusion
When is revelation a form of intimacy, when is disclosure oversharing, and when is a personal story designed to enrol the listener into an us-versus-them dynamic?
In defense of denial
“Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is grace in denial. It is nature’s way of letting in only as much as we can handle.”
Murder on the page
“Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it —wholeheartedly — and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.” Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Why we are all absolute goners
To bastardize a Buddhist saying, it’s not so much the finger pointing at the moon, as much as all fingers pointing back at me.
Hope and the wounded healer
The servant leader abides in the place of transcendent hope itself – and holds a vision of healing and redemption when another cannot. This is what sensitive leadership looks like.
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