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The Blessed Exaggeration: What Comes Out of Your Communion with the Divinely Mundane

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Why ordinary life turns vivid the moment you stop reaching past it — what your communion with the divinely mundane gives you back There is a moment that visits you sometimes, if you are paying a certain kind of attention, and it makes no sense on the surface. The steam off the coffee, the weight […]

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Seven Micro-Actions That Keep Me Focused, Calm and Alert — And Why They Are Not What You’d Expect

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Seven micro-actions I return to through the day — and why staying focused, calm and alert turns out to be something that happens, not something I do I want to be honest about the title before we go further, because it promises something I am going to partly take back. These seven small things do

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