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.
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.
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
The greatest minds are not products of thinking, but miracles in feeling
Courage goes hand in hand with wisdom.
Terry Cole • Stoicism Made Simple: Find your inner peace - A step-by-step guide to reduce stress, become more resilient and live a happier life
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.”
frenchpress.thedispatch.com • The Crisis of Christian Celebrity
Your Soul speaks to you through your Heart, which is why the root of the word courage is coeur, the French word for “Heart.” The true demonstration of courage is learning to take direction from your Heart, no matter what your brain says.