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Spirit: Humility without Nihilism

Spirit: Humility without Nihilism

Bastiani, Wilfred-Leonard

Paperback

General Education

ISBN10: 1326053493
ISBN13: 9781326053499
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Oct 29 2025
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.14 Width: 4.25 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
SPIRIT: Humility Without Nihilism What if spirit is not a mood but a reliable way of acting-witness, will, and word braided into consequence? Spirit offers a clear grammar for turning attention into trustworthy presence and results. It frames a tetrahedron of capacities-Life, Love, Creation, Will-stabilized by six edges-Beauty, Nurture, Covenant, Discipline, Stewardship, Prudence-and rendered as four lived planes: Consecrated Craft, Trustworthy Care, Responsible Governance, Generative Habitat. Drawing on a chorus of voices-Paul, Augustine, Eckhart, Teresa, John of the Cross; Hegel, Kierkegaard, James, Bergson, Scheler; Frankl, Jung, Hillman; the Upanishads and Śaṅkara; Patañjali; Buddhist insight with Nāgārjuna and Dōgen; Taoist wu-wei with Laozi and Zhuangzi; and the Sufi heart of Rūmī and Ibn ʿArabī-the book distills what endures and makes it operable now. Modern integrators-Steiner, Teilhard, Heschel, Merton, Wilber, McGilchrist-help bridge devotion, psyche, and systems. Two playful but precise formulas anchor the vision: GOD + 0 ⇒ GO0D (freedom enables covenant) and GOD + Λ ⇒ GOLD (orientation yields proportion). With clean tests, field-ready practices, and weekly rhythms, Spirit aims at coherence over noise-clarity without cruelty, reverence without vagueness, and a life that keeps its word when the pressure rises.

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