What does success look like? Well the NoVo Foundation seems to think that we can measure it using love as a metric. But how does that work? And as some have noted, can love really be quantified so easily? John tackles this and counters with an old world concept called the nous - which offers a possible meeting ground for these concepts.

Links:
Quartz article by Suzanne Guillette - https://tinyurl.com/xc7npbc8
Orthodox Psychotherapy by Metropolitan Vlachos - https://tinyurl.com/277c6hda
Life of Moses by St. Gregory of Nyssa - https://tinyurl.com/h5pvs4aj

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"Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?" takes you beyond rhetorical "rabbits" and the shallow approach that the media and most thinkers today take to examine contemporary cultural phenomena. Using theology, history, philosophy and years of travel in Mali, the Republic of Georgia, Haiti, and beyond, John Heers offers a refreshing take to how we got to where we are now. WAWTAR is all about talking about those heavy things… lightly.

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