Reality - A Life-Giving Definition
I'm making a little book called Just So Many Words: A Dictionary of Life-Giving Definitions. The premise is that no definition can...
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Poetry for People
Who Don't Read Poetry. Spirituality for People
On Planet Earth
Chris Spark
"You definitely have something going here: the quick take, unexpected turn-arounds, lots of playfulness... delightful in many instances." —Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate
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Chris Spark
- Aug 7
- 2 min
Divisions - A Life-Giving Definition
There isn’t a single boundary that we couldn’t change or that doesn’t disappear on closer examination.
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Chris Spark
- Aug 1
- 3 min
Happiness - A Life-Giving Definition
We need to know happiness intimately before we are qualified to help others find it.
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Chris Spark
- Jul 30
- 2 min
Stop Living in Denial & Turn off the News
If there's such thing as a scientifically valid sampling of significant things that happened in the world today, "the news" is not it.
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Chris Spark
- Jul 26
- 2 min
Ambition - A Life-Giving Definition
The only cure for ambition is an idea so beautiful and ridiculous that most people dismiss it outright.
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Chris Spark
- Jul 24
- 3 min
Alone - A Life-Giving Definition
Alone is the opposite of lonely.
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Chris Spark
- Jun 22
- 2 min
I Don't Fit
We all look around at the world to try to find slots where we can fit ourselves
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Chris Spark
- Jun 4
- 4 min
Self-Praise
I have spent much of my adult life with a kind of default idea playing like a background tape loop: that I have come up short...
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Chris Spark
- Apr 14
- 3 min
To A Young Man Depressed Around the Same Age I Was
A friend’s college-age son was depressed and my friend, knowing what I have gone through, asked if I could offer any help. The request...
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Chris Spark
- Feb 2
- 27 min
Spirituality Is for the Birds: Allowing Natural Grace
Some people love babies and some don’t. But babies don’t care. Adults have to teach them that.
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Chris Spark
- Dec 6, 2022
- 54 min
Christ Was No Christian: So Who the Hell Was He?
Jesus can’t be kept inside our convenient containers... He invites us to experience something more than that.
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Chris Spark
- Nov 5, 2022
- 2 min
"My Business is to Create"
I keep a list of things to do. Little and big stuff I want to get done. I’ve also kept an attitude towards that list. It is a sense that...
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Chris Spark
- Sep 29, 2022
- 1 min
Wholeness in Pieces: Aphorism 34
What we most want is...
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Chris Spark
- Sep 28, 2022
- 1 min
Wholeness in Pieces: Aphorism 33
To fulfill your desire...
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Chris Spark
- Sep 26, 2022
- 1 min
Wholeness in Pieces: Aphorism 31
The most pervasive lies...
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Chris Spark
- Sep 23, 2022
- 1 min
Wholeness in Pieces: Aphorism 30
Particulars do their job when...
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Chris Spark
- Sep 22, 2022
- 1 min
Wholeness in Pieces: Aphorism 29
Our greatest power lies...
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Chris Spark
- Sep 21, 2022
- 1 min
Wholeness in Pieces: Aphorism 28
The alleviation of suffering in the world...
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