LIT
Life Ignition Tools: Use Nature's Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action
Jeff Karp
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“In this illuminating guide, Jeff Karp illustrates how we can break free from the routines that limit our thinking. LIT is an essential toolkit for converting intentions into actions that matter.”
This book was discussed in the context of the author's spiritual journey and her exploration of Catholicism. A quote from St. Augustine's City of God was read and discussed as part of this conversation.
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And I heard your interview with Terry Gross and I was so intrigued as you talked about your religious life now. And then when I started rereading you and reading the art of memoir, reading, you know,...
— Episode: [Unedited] Mary Karr with Krista Tippett
Episode: [Unedited] Mary Karr with Krista Tippett
This book was discussed in the context of the author's spiritual journey and her exploration of Catholicism. A quote from St. Augustine's City of God was read and discussed as part of this conversation.
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And I heard your interview with Terry Gross and I was so intrigued as you talked about your religious life now. And then when I started rereading you and reading the art of memoir, reading, you know, some of your newer works and lit, I just found myself tracing kind of, you know, spiritual life as it has unfolded.
I want to read this from St. Augustine's City of God, which you put at the at the top of the chapter of one of the chapters in Lit, which talks about where you're talking about becoming religious.
Episode: Mary Karr — Astonished by the Human Comedy
This memoir, also beloved by many, details Mary Karr's harrowing childhood in Southeast Texas and her struggles with alcoholism and breakdown as an adult. The book's spiritual elements, including her unexpected midlife conversion to Catholicism, are also explored.
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I'm going to read this. Late have I loved you, oh beauty, so ancient and so new. Late have I loved you, for behold, you were within me and I outside. And I sought you outside and in my unloveliness fell upon those lovely things which you have made. You were with me and I was not with you. I was kept from you by those things. Yet had they not been in you, they would not have been at all. You called and cried to me to break open my deafness, and you sent forth your beams and you shone upon me and chased away my blindness. You breathed fragrance upon me and I drew in my breath and now do pant for you.
give me chastity Lord but not yet.
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