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Empty Altars: American Saints in a Cynical Age (#179)

You Have Permission

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I Love Gratitude

I'm kind of in awe frankly of Gratitude as just a phenomenological reality that our consciousness has gotten to the point where we can do that. I think it really fits with this project that there's a kind of a sensible flow of my own work over several books because Cynicism which is the part of the theme that we're working with erodes gratefulness. It's very hard for people who discover deep levels of gratitude to embrace the kind of cynicism that choose away at our Sense of groundedness in the world. So many of our saints and heroes have just been taken down knockdown Moved off of pedestals that we don't know where to turn to find those inspiring stories

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