![]() ![]() “Pulling rank can be generous, or an expression of caring, when done by the right person at the right time.” As we see over and over in this book, the motive is the key. Both can be useful depending on the context and how we do it. ![]() We can play our power up, or we can play it down. ![]() Any person’s power depends entirely on the context in which power is being negotiated.” Power is not a feeling, and if you have to talk about it, you probably have very little of it. “what makes someone powerful-what makes others willing to comply with their wishes-is the degree to which they are needed. Simply stated, “power is the capacity for social control.” On a more personal level. These two statements set the stage for what follows. People who use the power they have to manage their own powerless feelings are bound to stray from their responsibilities. Success, impact, and life satisfaction are not the result of how much power you can accumulate, or even how powerful others think you are they are the result of what you are able to do for others with the power you already have. Two statements she makes at the start caught my attention immediately: The question is, what are we doing with it? ![]() It is a tour de force on what power is, how it works, and how it affects every aspect of our lives. Deborah Gruenfeld has been teaching a class at Stanford University that is the title of her book, Acting with Power. WE need to think about power differently. ![]()
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They plucked me from captivity, giving me a home and purpose, and now it’s my turn to fight for them. My Dukes have become capable warriors, but Forsyth needs more than their fists. As we struggle to make amends, the four of us must face the real fights occurring in Forsyth: The battle against the legacies of our fathers, the conflict for a Kingdom that’s stronger than its King, and the wars we wage within ourselves. And Pretty Nick Bruin tried his hardest to steal my soul. The ruin of obsession, the madness of love, and the peril of duty. 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Former head of the FLDS, a man much discussed in the book, and one with whom the author had several tumultuous encounters, Warren Jeffs, is now in prison after being on the FBI’s ten most wanted list. And it gives clues about how to help reach a person locked into a cult mentality.Ĭarolyn Jessop’s former husband Merril Jessop is now the head of the FLDS group in Texas that is at Yearning for Zion ranch. It is a book about marriage and parenting. While there is no evidence in the book that the author has come to faith in Christ, this book is well worth reading for many reasons. After she escaped with her children, she had to fight a tremendous battle to keep her children, and her sanity. The author endured lots of abuse from her husband and from her “sister wives” during her 17 years of marriage. ![]() ![]() During this time her husband accumulated more wives. She had eight children by him over the next 17 years. 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I found this book to be a really charming dose of historical queer romance. I haven’t read a good historical romance in a while, so I was excited to throw myself into One Night in Hartswood. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These core insights into the nature of the mystical process, which for the Sufis is the essence of true religious practice, are continually explored in the love-poetry which they created both to express their own passionate attachment to the Divine Beloved and to transmit this vital passion to a popular audience unfamiliar with the learned languages of the court. God created the world through love, and it is through love that man may come to understand the mystery of the divine presence in all things. Their verses were designed to convey the essential belief of mystical Islam in the overriding importance of love as the supreme force of creation and as the unique medium through which God’s creatures may truly come to know Him. ![]() The rich literary heritage of the major indigenous languages of Pakistan has at its heart the wonderful poetry created by many great Sufis of the pre-modern period, dating from mediaeval times down to the late nineteenth century. ![]() |