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LATEST ARTICLES ( 193 )

• Fear of Nature

  

  In a recent classroom discussion, a student posed the question, “does spending time in natural settings decrease stress?”I had just finished reading “The... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Replacement of Awe

  We are in a season of mass media consumption. Super Bowl 50 occurs this Sunday, and is coming off the heels of the most watched Super Bowl (and television event... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Loss of Awe

  

  Sometimes, we forget how much our world has changed.In a famous 2005 commencement address – later adapted for a video that went viral on the internet – David... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• Alive in the World

  

  Now that the new year has started, I have shifted to a new reading practice. As my last posts note, last year, I read one poem per day from Rainer Maria Rilke. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• Rilke on Mystery and Awe (6)

  This is my last in a series of daily posts in which I share writings of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke that connect most clearly with mystery and awe.This is the... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• Rilke on Mystery and Awe (5)

  God, every night is hard. Always there are some awake, who turn, turn, and do not find you. Don’t you hear them crying out as they go farther and farther down?... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• Rilke on Mystery and Awe (4)

  

  Oh, not to be separated, shut off from the starry dimensions by so thin a wall. What is within us if not intensified sky traversed with birds and deep with wind... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• Rilke on Mystery and Awe (3)

  I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it. I circle around God, around the... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• Rilke on Mystery and Awe (2)

  In perhaps Rilke’s most famous lines, he writes:I want to ask you, as clearly as I can, to bear with patience all that is unresolved in your heart, and try to... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• Rilke on Mystery and Awe (1)

  

  Happy New Year!During 2015, I started a new habit: Once a day (give or take), I read a poem from famed German poet Rainer Maria Rilke. There were times when thi... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• How Do You Want to Feel in 2016?

  

  Christine Carter is one of my favorite authors and bloggers. I have benefited greatly from her advice about parenting and happiness. Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• Snowflakes

  The moment one gives close attention to any thing… it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• In Awe of Christmas

  

  Christmas elicits so many emotions. For many people, these emotions are negative. There can be great loneliness, embarrassment, or shame when loved ones or... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• Thanksgiving as a Lifestyle

  

  Today, we Americans celebrate our most psychologically informed holiday: Thanksgiving. Although most of us associate this holiday with overeating and football,... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• Announcement: Andy’s New Blog

  Dear reader of “The Quest for a New Life,”Although I still will be writing here about the intersection between Christian spirituality and Psychology, in general... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• Random Quotes About the Mystery of God

  “If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.” (St. Augustine)“No matter how hard I try to say something true about God, the reality of... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• An Overview of My Philosophy of Teaching

  Frederick Buechner referred to a calling as “the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” In this sense, I have felt called to college... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• My Response to Death

  

  “One of the profoundest features of the Christian and Jewish way of being-in-the-world and being-in-history is remembering. . . We are to hold the past in... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• A Reflection on Extreme Prejudice and Violence

  In the past several months, it has been difficult to scan through news without reading about some horrific incidence of international violence. Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY

• Listening to Your Life

  I don’t think I’ve ever been told by two respected mentors, independently of each other, to read an author. Yet, this has been true for me this year in the... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY