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wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, everyday life.

Each one of these passages is based on the

2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and

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Don't put yourself in this position. We take the job because it pays well. We take the job because it gets us closer to where we're trying to go.

It gets us closer to the center of power. It's the opportunity we train for. We've worked a lifetime for. It's a job we've worked a lifetime for. It's a job we're good at. It's a job that a lot of people and things depend on. But still we have our reservations.

About the effect our industry has on the world about the character of our boss,

maybe about what that job is doing to us, our health, our family.

It's a timeless situation.

Our ambition writes checks that our conscience has to cash. Our drive keeps

us busy but in the quiet moments doubt concern creeps in. And her fascinating and

must read book Pontius Pilot,

Anne Row, you can listen to her podcast here, she sets the scene

back in the year 26.

It is not hard to imagine dinner parties in Caesaria at which Pilate's guests visiting from Rome

would regale him with the blood-soaked stories and sexual details that would make women cover

their ears, she writes,

while Pilot would listen in the awful sinking knowledge

that this was the man to whom he owed his career,

from whom he drew his authority and whose safety he prayed for.

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