Category: Loving LIfe
I Choose Astonishment (Part 1)
Affective Prosperity
af·fec·tive (adj): relating to, arising from, or influencing feelings or emotions pros·per·i·ty (noun): a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition Affective Prosperity is the principal that all of our authentic emotions and feelings add a texture and richness to life, and can be a creative force to be drawn upon to…
The Rain Stick
What Good Are Words?
What good are words? Can there ever be a poetry that saves nations or people? Abraham Joshua Heschel pointed out that “the Holocaust did not begin with the building of crematoria, with tanks and guns. It began with uttering evil words, with defamation, with language and propaganda. Words create worlds.”
Accepting Hardship
. . . and when everything feels like it is too much, when the full density of world is slipping loose from tired fingers and there is just so much that you do not know, let yourself breathe, breathe into the realization that: I do not understand; I do not…
Resilience
Resilience
Our Most Humble Strengths
** This post first appeared on Positive Psychology News Daily. Forgiveness. Mercy. Prudence. Modesty. The strengths of temperance don’t get as much attention as our more muscular qualities. Yet in a certain sense, maybe this cluster of strengths enables every other strength, and thus makes the good life possible. Excitement…
The Beautiful Game
All of life is a Beautiful Game
Welcome to JohnSeanDoyle.com
Thank you for your interest in www.JohnSeanDoyle.com. I am Sean Doyle. In this blog, I explore the poetry and science of well-being. It is an invitation to inject a little more hope, affection and meaning into the world. It is about recovering a reverence for being, and creating a culture…
I Choose Astonishment (Part 1)
Affective Prosperity
af·fec·tive (adj): relating to, arising from, or influencing feelings or emotions pros·per·i·ty (noun): a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition Affective Prosperity is the principal that all of our authentic emotions and feelings add a texture and richness to life, and can be a creative force to be drawn upon to…
The Rain Stick
What Good Are Words?
What good are words? Can there ever be a poetry that saves nations or people? Abraham Joshua Heschel pointed out that “the Holocaust did not begin with the building of crematoria, with tanks and guns. It began with uttering evil words, with defamation, with language and propaganda. Words create worlds.”
Accepting Hardship
. . . and when everything feels like it is too much, when the full density of world is slipping loose from tired fingers and there is just so much that you do not know, let yourself breathe, breathe into the realization that: I do not understand; I do not…
Resilience
Resilience
Our Most Humble Strengths
** This post first appeared on Positive Psychology News Daily. Forgiveness. Mercy. Prudence. Modesty. The strengths of temperance don’t get as much attention as our more muscular qualities. Yet in a certain sense, maybe this cluster of strengths enables every other strength, and thus makes the good life possible. Excitement…
The Beautiful Game
All of life is a Beautiful Game
Welcome to JohnSeanDoyle.com
Thank you for your interest in www.JohnSeanDoyle.com. I am Sean Doyle. In this blog, I explore the poetry and science of well-being. It is an invitation to inject a little more hope, affection and meaning into the world. It is about recovering a reverence for being, and creating a culture…