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Courage Paradox. The greatest minds are not products of thinking, but miracles in feeling. The heart is the bridge between the animal and the divine. Man’s heart is the intersectional ‘core’. Courage gets man out of his head and loins, so his heart can do the greatest thinking.
I also ponder the truth of C.S. Lewis’s definition of courage (you’ve heard me quote it before): “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”
from The Crisis of Christian Celebrity by frenchpress.thedispatch.com
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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. I felt fear more times than I can remember, but I hid it behind a mask of boldness. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear
from The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama
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- “Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is wh... See more
from 3-2-1: On Endless Pursuits, the Value of Courage, and How to Buy Back Your Time by James Clear
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Ethnobotanist and mystic Terence McKenna on courage.
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What if, instead of starting from the assumption that human beings are thinking things, we started from the conviction that human beings are first and foremost lovers? What if you are defined not by what you know but by what you desire? What if the center and seat of the human person is found not in the heady regions of the intellect but in the gut
... See morefrom You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit by James K. A. Smith
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“You are what you think” is a motto that reduces human beings to brains-on-a-stick. Ironically, such thinking-thingism assumes that the “heart” of the person is the mind. “I think, therefore I am,” Descartes said, and most of…
from You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit by James K. A. Smith
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