personal development on Life to the Full

The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life—the life God is sending one day by day.

There is a lovely book of advice for writers called Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield, which talks about how much easier it is to pursue a version of something than the real thing. Pressfield say...

“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

The mythologies of the digital age center around the idea that waiting is keeping you from obtaining what you want and holding you back from living a more fulfilling and productive life.

Live to the point of tears.

Most people I know who establish new patterns of healthy living do so in community.

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

For over the margins of life comes a whisper, a faint call, a premonition of richer living. . . . Strained by the very mad pace of our daily outer burdens, we are further strained by an inward uneasin...