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alance can be just another idol. On the other hand, values should be the driving force of our choices in life. I’m not all that interested in balance, really. Instead, I want to live a life (and have those around me experience my life in a way) that is in alignment with my values.

Duffy Robbins on Helping Students Go Deeper – Adult Leader Training 10.28.10

In “Bond of Brothers: Connecting With Other Men Beyond Work, Weather and Sports,” author Wes Yoder strives to break down the stubbornly pervasive wall of masculine silence that seems to forbid whole generations of men from communicating with each other and their loved ones.

I tend to think of balance as a teeter-totter. And, like any good fulcrum, the only time I really experience balance is when I’m passing it on the journey from one unbalance to another.

According to Buster Soaries, we didn’t arrive at such a financial crisis overnight. We arrived at this point through a culturally conditioned process of enslavement, tightening our own shackles each day with emotional purchases, overwhelming indebtedness, and desperate short-sightedness.

Dr. Buster Soaries believes “debt is a bigger problem than racism,” and that “debt is slavery.” The idea that we would be voluntary slaves is offensive to all of our sensibilities. But when we continue to spend what we don’t have, charge what we don’t need, and borrow more than we can repay, then we must call the problem what it is: slavery.