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1. Strengthens identity Recalling past experiences reinforces our sense of who we are and how we’ve grown through the year. 2. Strengthens relationships Sharing memories with others helps to builds connection, empathy, and mutual understanding. 3. Encourages goal-setting Reviewing the past year clarifies personal priorities and guides our decision-making for the future. 4. Boosts mood …
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Throughout Christian history, mystics have been recognised as “great souls”: women and men whose lives display an unusual depth of prayer, moral seriousness, spiritual authority, and love for God and neighbour. Here are twenty of them. Who else, in your opinion, should make the list? Augustine of Hippo Gregory of Nyssa Evagrius Ponticus Macrina the …
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In his writings, the Australian Baptist theologian G. H. Morling occasionally refers to “great souls,” people of extraordinary humanity or spiritual insight – those rare individuals able to express uncommon empathy or magnanimity, whether in actions or words. The phrase “great soul” echoes the classical Greek notion of megalopsychos, the “great-souled man,” articulated by Aristotle, denoting largeness of …
Perhaps you don’t feel inclined to rejoice as we engage with Advent this year. And that’s okay. Advent does not demand joy and celebration, although there’s nothing wrong with expressing happy emotions or accompanying others who are keen to express them. Advent meets us where we are, in every season of life, in whatever mental or emotional frame it finds us. But …
Ever wonder how and why your eyes return to the precise spot on the page after an interval of distraction? Essentially, what you experience is saccadic re-fixation. But it’s a complex set of processes, one of the most elegant instances of unconscious coordination between vision, memory, and spatial cognition. When you reopen a book or …
