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Martha Beck, The Way of Integrity (2021)

July 19, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“In The Way of Integrity, Beck presents a four-stage process that anyone can use to find integrity, and with it, a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a life free of mental suffering. Much of what plagues us—people pleasing, staying in stale relationships, negative habits—all point to what happens when we are out of touch with what truly makes us feel whole.

“Inspired by The Divine Comedy, Beck uses Dante’s classic hero’s journey as a framework to break down the process of attaining personal integrity into small, manageable steps. She shows how to read our internal signals that lead us towards our true path, and to recognize what we actually yearn for versus what our culture sells us.

“With techniques tested on hundreds of her clients, Beck brings her expertise as a social scientist, life coach and human being to help readers to uncover what integrity looks like in their own lives. She takes us on a spiritual adventure that not only will change the direction of our lives, but bring us to a place of genuine happiness.”   —marthabeck.com

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, America, Healing, Inspiration, Journeys, Non-Fiction, Self-Help, Spirituality, Suffering, United States

DeseretNews, “We are living in Dante’s Inferno: Here’s Our Way Out”

February 8, 2021 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

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“Many of us who face the start of 2021 are experiencing political and personal crises analogous to what Dante confronted seven centuries earlier. Families are split according to political alliances. Homes are being lost to foreclosures. More walls are going up than doors are being opened. Pride leads us to blame others rather than accept any personal responsibility. We prefer to react rather than act in ways that lead to positive, forward motion. Dante’s epic, if read to the end, teaches that there is a better and more hopeful way.

“To follow Dante’s example, we must read widely and be open to more than one news source or a single viewpoint. We must recognize how breaking the law, whether God’s or man’s, easily leads to corruption, no matter how smart or rich the person is. We must take responsibility for our own actions, acknowledge when we are wrong, and engage in honest efforts to make amends. We must adopt long-term views and prioritize what matters most. Dante would argue that only then can one find the wisdom and the fortitude to endure to the end.” [. . .]    –Madison Sowell, DeseretNews, January 18, 2021.

 

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Inspiration, Literary Criticism, Politics, Spirituality, United States, Utah

…mi ritrovai in una strana pandemia… (2020)

January 2, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

In the last days of 2020, the image below was circulating on various social media platforms (Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook):

Contributed by Irene Zanini-Cordi (Florida State University)

Categories: Digital Media
Tagged with: 2020, 2021, 700th anniversary, Coronavirus, Inspiration, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, New Year, Poetry, Stars

“Writing/Righting Your Life the Dante Way,” a Coffee & Cocktails podcast episode (2020)

November 23, 2020 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Podcast-Writing-Righting-your-life-the-Dante-Way“‘Writing/Righting Your Life the Dante Way,’ Or ‘How to awaken your potential, pin-point your goals, and discover a way forward in tough times’ with Dr. Kristin Stasiowski of Kent State University.

“This incredible talk by Dr. Stasiowski speaks to the importance of learning from our past and how historical literature can be a source of inspiration and motivation especially during dark times.”   —The Coffee & Cocktails Podcast with Dr. Ann Wand (November 23, 2020)

Categories: Digital Media
Tagged with: 2020, History, Inspiration, Podcasts, Religion, Spirituality, Writing

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