The unsurprising truth is that there are plenty of people talking about meditation, but not a lot of people doing it. The gym has less of this problem; most people who are out of shape don’t talk about their gym habits, unless they’re making clear progress toward their goals. But with meditation, there isn’t a credibility check for it’s advocates. It’s pretty easy to just speak authoritatively without putting in any time or deriving any benefits from it.
The end result is that those who aren’t very familiar with meditation find it’s proponents to be pretentious, and don’t really dive in on the topic. But it does have a ton of benefits, is backed up by science, and encouraged (even mandated) in virtually every religious text ever written.
Picking and choosing lines from Jesus is what people do when they want to shame other people for their beliefs and manipulate their political point of view using religion. Squabbling like Christ's teenage disciples. Perhaps the solution is to focus inwardly, render to Ceasar, owe no man anything but love, feed the hungry, and simultaneously be wise stewards over the gifts we've received, searching the mountains for one lost sheep and scouring the house for one lost penny.
Read MoreThe good news is, if you're a fan of Christian movies, there are more of them being made with higher budgets, better talent, and stronger writing. In spite of those developments, however, they seem to fall within the same old stale genre guidelines and never depart. Each of these genres can almost correspond to a denomination from which the style originated, interestingly enough. Take a look at this list of Christian movie types, and feel free to chime in with your own.
Read MoreProductivity scares me as a topic. It's this ethereal, immeasurable thing that we all aspire to do more of without fully comprehending what it is. We can measure outcomes of productivity (most simply, how much we produce) but not productivity itself. When we're doing it, we feel it, even if we haven’t checked a specific item off a list.
Read MoreYou are surrounded at this very moment by countless inanimate luxuries, most of which were ridiculed, condemned, even feared such as the device you're reading this on right now. Airplanes, radio, cell phones, computers, the internet, credit cards - all Witchcraft to the masses of yesteryear. Imagine Harder. Imagine Bigger. Imagine the Unimaginable, and remember: Your entire life was once the imagination of a few insane radicals. Be like the radicals, not like their critics.
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