The Good Life Fall ‘23

Failure and Peace

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self Exploration.” It made me realize the amount of value failure has in self-realization. Failure defines you whether you accept it or not. However, your response to failure is the biggest test of all. If you refuse to grow and learn from…

Self-Limitation in Vocation

Finding our purpose in the world is one of our main goals when it comes to the development of our spirituality and values. It helps us to form our sense of self. Sometimes, following a singular vocation can cause us to limit ourselves to one area of growth, limiting others. For…

Meditation and the Good Life

Spirituality and the pursuit of the good life are intrinsically connected given that both address the very essence of human existence and the search for meaning and fulfillment. While the good life is a very personal concept that includes happiness, well-being, and purpose…

The Power of Authenticity

Parker Palmer’s statement, “What we see is simple but often ignored: the movements that transform us, our relations, and our world emerge from the lives of people who decide to care for their authentic selfhood. The social systems in which these people must survive often try to force them to live in…

Week 11 — Tarrot and Meditation

For this week’s assignment, instead of trying out a new spiritual practice, Id like to talk about my experiences with them so far. A very big practice in my life has been meditation. One of my closest friends got me into it a couple years ago. He would make time every…

Week 11: Meditation

I am not someone who has always participated in mediation. Not because I thought it was bad or would be unhelpful, I had just never thought of doing it. Fairly recently, however, I have tried to meditate more, especially when I’m stressed. I have found it extremely helpful since starting to do…

My Life Directed by Social Norms

In Alasdair MacIntyre’s “Virtue, the Unity of a Human Life, and the Concept of a Tradition” from After Virtue, he begins to talk about life as if it's a story or movie being told. The concept of my life being a movie gives me an eerie feeling. Sometimes it does feel like…

all about love

“The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better…

MLK JR.

Martin Luther King was a firm believer in equality and equal opportunities for everyone. King watched and realized what was wrong with our country and knew he couldn’t just sit back and observe anymore. He knew without at least attempting to make a change, everything would get worse. King gathered his ideas and…