Courage
Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work; a future. To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.
David Whyte • Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
"To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything, except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences."
—David Whyte
Courage is what love looks like when tested by the simple everyday necessities of being alive.
David Whyte • Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness. Katherine Henson...
But these activities are all separate from the feelings needed to fully and sustainably participate: the courage, optimism, trust, love, intimacy, curiosity. The resilience to push through the inevitable feelings of fear, overwhelm, frustration, and hurt. The stamina to go through cycles of all of these feelings and more, again and again, and conti... See more