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Voices for empty nest
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Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Farid ud-Din Attar.
Farid ud-Din Attar
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion; bewilderment is intuition."
Specializes in
- purpose
- anxiety
- grief
- loneliness
- faith
- self confidence
Generated from
- Sufism
- Poetry as reflection
- Contemplative practice
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Augustine of Hippo.
Augustine of Hippo
"Our heart is restless until it rests in you."
Specializes in
- purpose
- faith
- anxiety
- grief
- self confidence
Generated from
- Christian mysticism
- Contemplative practice
- Existential meaning
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Baal Shem Tov.
Baal Shem Tov
"From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls who are destined to be together find each other, their two streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being."
Specializes in
- purpose
- faith
- relationships
- anxiety
- stress
- self confidence
Generated from
- Hasidic Judaism
- Kabbalah
- Sufism
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Bankei Yotaku.
Bankei Yotaku
"The Unborn Buddha-mind is fundamentally endowed with all things."
Specializes in
- anxiety
- stress
- purpose
- self confidence
- burnout
Generated from
- Zen
- Buddhism
- Mindfulness
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with G.K. Chesterton.
G.K. Chesterton
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
Specializes in
- purpose
- anxiety
- self confidence
- faith
- relationships
Generated from
- Christian mysticism
- Existential meaning
- Cognitive reframing
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Dogen.
Dogen
"To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things."
Specializes in
- anxiety
- stress
- purpose
- self confidence
- loneliness
Generated from
- Zen
- Buddhism
- Mindfulness
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Meister Eckhart.
Meister Eckhart
"The ground of the soul and the ground of God are one and the same."
Specializes in
- purpose
- anxiety
- stress
- faith
- grief
Generated from
- Christian mysticism
- Contemplative practice
- Self-inquiry
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Francis of Assisi.
Francis of Assisi
"For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."
Specializes in
- relationships
- purpose
- faith
- anxiety
- grief
- loneliness
Generated from
- Christian mysticism
- Compassion practice
- Nature connection
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Al-Ghazali.
Al-Ghazali
"Knowledge without action is a wilderness, and action without knowledge is folly."
Specializes in
- purpose
- faith
- anxiety
- stress
- self confidence
- burnout
Generated from
- Sufism
- Christian mysticism
- Contemplative practice
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Hakuin Ekaku.
Hakuin Ekaku
"At the bottom of great doubt lies great enlightenment. If there is no great doubt, there will be no great enlightenment."
Specializes in
- anxiety
- stress
- purpose
- self confidence
- burnout
Generated from
- Zen
- Buddhism
- Contemplative practice
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Hildegard of Bingen.
Hildegard of Bingen
"The Earth is alive, and the soul is the sap that nourishes it. All creation is a living, breathing garment of God."
Specializes in
- purpose
- faith
- anxiety
- self confidence
- burnout
Generated from
- Christian mysticism
- Nature connection
- Contemplative practice
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Ibn Arabi.
Ibn Arabi
"Know that the Cosmos is a large Man, and Man is a small Cosmos."
Specializes in
- purpose
- anxiety
- loneliness
- faith
- self confidence
Generated from
- Sufism
- Christian mysticism
- Kabbalah
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Marcus Tullius Cicero (Ad Familiares, Shuckburgh translation, public domain).
Cicero
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Specializes in
- career
- leadership
- purpose
- loss
- decision
Generated from
- Stoic
- Skeptic
- Roman
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with John of the Cross.
John of the Cross
"In the dark night, the soul receives pure contemplation and purification, removing all that is not God."
Specializes in
- grief
- purpose
- anxiety
- faith
- stress
Generated from
- Christian mysticism
- Contemplative practice
- Grief work
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Pliny the Younger (Melmoth translation, public domain).
Pliny the Younger
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Specializes in
- relationships
- purpose
- career
- parenting
Generated from
- Stoic
- Humanist
- Roman
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with John Adams (Adams Family Correspondence and Adams–Jefferson letters, public domain).
John Adams
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Specializes in
- leadership
- purpose
- career
- parenting
- faith
- decision
- retirement
Generated from
- Enlightenment
- Christian contemplative
- Civic
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Kateri Tekakwitha.
Kateri Tekakwitha
"I am not my own; I have given myself to Jesus. He must be my only love."
Specializes in
- faith
- anxiety
- grief
- self confidence
- loneliness
Generated from
- Christian mysticism
- Indigenous wisdom
- Compassion practice
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Krishna.
Krishna
"Your right is only to perform your duty, and not to the fruit thereof. Let not the fruit of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction."
Specializes in
- purpose
- stress
- relationships
- career
- faith
- self confidence
Generated from
- Bhakti
- Yoga philosophy
- Advaita Vedanta
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Liezi.
Liezi
"The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing, it refuses nothing, it receives but does not keep."
Specializes in
- anxiety
- stress
- purpose
- self confidence
- relationships
- burnout
Generated from
- Taoism
- Zen
- Nature connection
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in."
Specializes in
- leadership
- grief
- purpose
- stress
- anxiety
- relationships
Generated from
- Indigenous wisdom
- Existential meaning
- Grief work
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Isaac Luria.
Isaac Luria
"From the very beginning, each soul is composed of 613 components, corresponding to the 613 commandments of the Torah."
Specializes in
- purpose
- grief
- faith
- self confidence
- burnout
- loneliness
Generated from
- Kabbalah
- Hasidic Judaism
- Christian mysticism
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Maimonides.
Maimonides
"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt advance."
Specializes in
- purpose
- faith
- anxiety
- career
- self confidence
Generated from
- Hasidic Judaism
- Kabbalah
- Logotherapy
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Milarepa.
Milarepa
"My religion is to live and die without regret."
Specializes in
- anxiety
- stress
- grief
- purpose
- self confidence
Generated from
- Buddhism
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Contemplative practice
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Musonius Rufus.
Musonius Rufus
"If you accomplish anything good with hard work, the labor passes, but the good endures; if you do anything shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the shame endures."
Specializes in
- anxiety
- stress
- self confidence
- purpose
- relationships
- burnout
Generated from
- Stoicism
- Contemplative practice
- Self-inquiry