Higher education today faces challenges from all sides, but college can provide young people with an opportunity to explore what it means to live a meaningful life. Increasingly, undergraduate education encourages students to reflect on their many callings in life, but this does not need to be a purely individual pursuit. This volume provides an argument for helping students to think about the interconnectedness of individual and communal life as they reflect on their various vocations.

Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. When faced with personal ineffectiveness or lagging organizational performance, most of us instinctively look for quick-fix behavioral band-aids, not recognizing the underlying mindset at the heart of our most persistent challenges. Through true stories and simple yet profound guidance and tools, The Outward Mindset enables individuals and organizations to make the one change that most dramatically improves performance, sparks collaboration, and accelerates innovation—a shift to an outward mindset.

So often in the Christian community we hear the question, What do we need to do to reach the unreached? While this appears to be a good question, perhaps its the wrong question. Instead of focusing on what might be best practices, our answers tend to revolve around what are best practices for us. The better question is, How can the unreached be reached? This takes us out of the center of the story and seeks to find the best methods and means to reach those who need to clearly hear the good news of Gods grace.

Addressing a dilemma that spiritual seekers and others face in their pursuit of happiness, Beyond Our Self-Image presents a unique and simple approach to experiencing true happiness - free from confusing thoughts and wavering satisfaction. You may be an experienced meditator facing difficulty receiving the full benefits of your meditation, stuck at one level of absorption, or you may be on the brink of transcendence. The practices in this book resolve those obstacles and help you experience your true self. While its purpose is primarily to enhance your first-hand experiences of well-being through practices in this book, Beyond Our Self-Image also attempts to heal a world divided by petty differences and wakes its readers up to a wiser civilization, resulting in widespread peace in this world.

We live in a time when attention spans are shrinking while demands on our emotions are accelerating at ever increasing rates. The media that once brought us news now seems determined to interpret it, forcing us to take sides rather than come to understanding. This growing white noise of conflict threatens to overwhelm our ability to find peace of mind. How can we clear away the unnecessary clutter and help ourselves, and others lead lives of true contentment and continuing growth? The answer to this question is found in a remarkable new book, Beyond Help, by Dr. Camaron J Thomas. It is a breakthrough guide that shows us, step by step, how we can help ourselves and others become better human beings in a dehumanizing world. Thomas text is profound yet easy to grasp and richly illustrated by examples taken from her long experience as a professional mediator. It leads the reader through the challenges and pitfalls of self-perception to the heights of the abiding presence; showing us how to cast debilitating baggage aside along the way so we can rise to our fullest potential. Beyond Help breaks the mold of self-help publications by empowering rather than manipulating the reader. It is a lifeline to anyone struggling to evolve in the turbulent waters racing beneath the surface of todays social network.

How can we get beyond our emotions when we are so hurt we can feel it in the deepest part of our stomach? We are so programmed to feel everything we choose. When we don't feel our choices, are they still genuine? Will God honor something we choose by faith, but don't really feel? How is it possible to go against the tide and choose to follow God when everything within us is screaming to do just the opposite?