Loving Courageously - Wisdom Hunters
The light we shine … always leads with grace and then truth (see Prov. 3:3–4).
Todd Wagner • 30-Minute Overview of Come and See (Faith Blueprints)
It takes courage to experience our deepest hurts in a direct and undiluted way.
Tim Burkett • Enlightenment Is an Accident: Ancient Wisdom and Simple Practices to Make You Accident Prone
We often dull down our capacity for beauty because we cannot bear to stay awake for the atrocities that we encounter when we love fragile creatures. It requires so much courage and strength to endure love for the beauty of the world. As Galway Kinnell points out, love requires courage: “perhaps it is courage, and even perhaps only courage.”5
Wendy Farley • Beguiled by Beauty
“The virtue of a sacred heart lies in the courage to maintain your innocence and wonder, your doubt and curiosity, and your compassion and love even through your darkest, most difficult moments.”
Erica Brown • Return: Daily Inspiration for the Days of Awe
The first is to love. This takes real courage, and ultimately surrender, to know our capacity for love - and we can only know this by loving another, by loving every detail in the natural world, knowing it as love, as from love. Love is the most resonant and beautiful interface between all being, it is an active state of communion, of giving and re
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