Courage is like — it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging. ~ Mary Daly, radical feminist …
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Courage, My Love
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Tough Times Don’t Last
Years ago I was out on a Saturday night in a bar in downtown Toronto. I spotted something written on a guy’s t-shirt that stayed with me forever: Tough times don’t last. Tough people do. …
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I Focus on What I Want
It is not just important, but also empowering, to repeatedly focus on what you want and where you "see" yourself going, rather than on all the scary things that might happen along the way.
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Replace Fear
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Giving Love
It is possible to give without loving, but not possible to love without giving. ~ Ron Hembree
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
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Life!
Life contains the capacity, like flames that reach toward heaven, to transform suffering and pain into the energy of value-creation, the light that illuminates the dark. Like the wind traversing vast spaces unhindered, life has …
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Human to the Core
Sharing, openness, and turning suffering into joy are the core of human spirituality. ~ Herbie Hancock
Photo by Marco Fedele (https://www.flickr.com/photos/marcofedele/) – https://www.flickr.com/photos/marcofedele/2743872635/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5508891
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Rinse and… Don’t Repeat
We don’t want to repeat past mistakes, we want a fresh start. But this fresh start can only come if we change our minds. We cannot just place a new life on top of old …
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Trial or Treasure?
Life’s trials are actually our great treasures that hone and strengthen us. If we can sincerely look at them that way, we’ll achieve immense growth. But if we wallow in our sadness and become self-pitying, …
