People Get Ready

What is Peace? What does it look like? What are its images? Have we ever known peace? What is the difference between one's individual practice of peace and world peace? Would anyone not want peace? Some say we'll never have sustained peace, but who would reject making peace if understood personally as a practice, accessible and as common …

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The Soul of the World

The Soul of the World is the second part of James Hillman's two-part book, The Thought of the Heart and The Soul of the World, in which he sees a world suffering a breakdown in much the same way as individuals suffer. A world ensouled, a psychic reality, in which we imagine with our hearts, connecting each …

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Thought of the Heart

A short break for me tonight from all things Non-Profit, here at National Harbor where I am attending a software users conference, enjoying a lovely view from my hotel room overlooking the Potomac river and Washington, D.C.. BlackBaud is a software company dedicated to providing database tools for fundraising and related enterprises. I am fortunate to …

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Our Lady of the Well

"Language is originally and essentially nothing but a system of signs or symbols, which denote real occurrences, or their echo in the human soul." Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious In the midst of reading Jung's Red Book, the idea of words and language and their relationship to the underlying wordless reality has begun to haunt me. …

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