Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. – Winston Churchill Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s acting anyway. Where are you afraid, where you could act anyway? Which of your fears are just excuses?
I was listening to a WNPR (CT Public Radio) radio show (The Colin McEnroe Show) and he was interviewing Byron Katie (of The Work). In their conversation Katie said something to effect of “all suffering comes from thought.” This McEnroe took some issue with. It was, unfortunately, a mis-understanding borne of not defining the term…
Sometimes, something – a possibility, a glimmer of something that could be – pops up and we make it into what we want it to be, what, perhaps we need it to be. But things aren’t what we wish they were. They are what they are. Sometimes, what we want and what something is the same. Great….
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. – Winston Churchill We often think we have the right strategy, usually because it isn’t creating something painful or terrible, but don’t regularly examine our results. It’s a form of floating through life that’s really just avoiding pain. Sure, we make some plans and…
Whatever it is you have, or don’t have, in your life is your responsibility. Your life is the way it is because of the choices you made. Most people would resist what I say in the title of this post: you chose this. it might be more palatable for me to say: your life is the…
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. – Nancy Astor We begin life as babies with no sense of separation, later we learn that there’s “me” and everyone else. If we’re lucky we feel connected to everyone else, but so often…