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Mining the Soul

Conference Reflections

SOUL-MAKING

‘School helped me to

develop a sense of

myself as a person’

‘Connecting with the

spiritual side of myself

has helped me develop

a sense of self’

‘The choice between peace and conflict helps you to work out who you are’

Actions that create soul in yourself

Actions that create soul in others

‘Respect is fre

e to give but

invaluable to receive…a kind

word produces a chemical

cascade in the body’

Akram Azimi‘Education of people

is the solution to the

problems of our w

orld’

‘We have a responsibility

– especially if you are a Christian –

to love your neighbour sacrificially.’

Bruce Robinson

The out-flowing of Soul to others

‘The way to

live a fu

lfilled

life is

to seek a ric

h

Caramello lif

e rather

than a hollow lif

e’ Bruce

Robinson

‘In the Philippines, the

moment she smelt, felt

and heard for the first

time she realised that her

safe, privileged world

would never be the same

again’ Reach Out

‘What gift is this experience giving you?’Indigenous mentoring programme

‘If I can make a small

difference everyday of my

life, then I can die today

knowing my life has

purpose’ Reach Out

…and discover that their own souls are enriched

Matthew 16:25 For those who want to save their life (psuche) will lose it, and those who lose their life (psuche) for my sake will find it.

The importance of maintaining your soul

‘I mined my soul to show kindness and discovered that I had given away more than I had’Akram Azimi

THE INTEGRATION OF EXISTENCE

Sport

Art

Music

Faith

Help for o

thers

Education

True Spirituality involves balance and the integration of Body, Mind and Spirit

Justin Langer

The four points for Sporting success:• Technical• Physical• Mental• Spiritual

THE COMMUNITY DIMENSION OF THE SOUL

Actions that create soul

‘When you are well loved by your parents, it is easy to believe in the God of love…what created my soul were the communities that produced me’Jarrod McKenna

Experiences that diminish soul

• Racism as an experience that works against the soul

• Journalism as the potential to diminish the soul

Spirituality and Religion

• The problems of the privatising of the realm of the ‘Spirit’

• The personal and the corporate dimensions of faith and spirituality (1 Corinthians 12)

• The challenge of a corporate expression of faith in Schools

JESUS AND THE SPIRIT

The gift we have to offer

‘Our task is to hand back Jesus to the world in all his captivating beauty and brilliance’Jarrod McKenna

What is missing?

‘I was living the dream but there was something missing…God gives me the strength to achieve anything’Justin Langer

The realm of the Spirit

A Spiritual experience is when God reaches down and touches you…without God our lives just don’t make sense