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Quick Guide to the World’s Most Widespread Moral Principle: Chapter 1

Here's the Rembrandt drawing that editor Cynthia Read thought of for my book cover. Treat others the way you want others to treat you. They may or may not reciprocate. But go ahead: Smile. Risk doing good. Have fun at it. You may inspire them to live better. Sometimes doing …

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Secrets of leadership

Morality

Jane Addams' Hull House Jane Addams advised leaders to temper their idealism so that they could mobilize social support in order actually to make progress. “[The leader] has to discover what people really want, and then ‘provide the channels in which the growing moral force of their lives shall …

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Jane Addams: Unforgettable leader and servant of humankind

Morality

Today we turn from truth and beauty to goodness, beautiful goodness, living the truth in love. Today we begin a series on morally active living. Please allow goodness to fill your soul and your mind, to direct your path, to reward your striving. What can you see in this small picture? What …

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My favorite poem

Arts, Beauty in nature, Walking in beauty

Irish poet Seamus Heaney in a 1992 poem tells the story of a drive to the ocean, where he found two contrasting and breathtaking scenes. Then, leaving aside religious language, he speaks metaphorically of an awakening of the inner life. Postscript And some time make the time to drive out west Into …

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Three key ingredients in hardiness (grit, toughness, resilience)

Arts

Positive psychology has produced a lot of research on an aspect of courage that I connect with artistic living, since it shines in sports, is visible in in the fine arts, and it does not necessarily have moral connotations. This quality is an essential part of that superb attitude in life that is …

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Artistic living in the zone

Arts

Like jazz, life is a performing art. The liberated performance essential to artistic living is not about being on stage in front of critics; in particular, we do not fashion ourselves into objects for others’ pleasure. Thanks to the order established by the design phase of artistic living, liberated …

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