Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. ~ Mark Twain
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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go;
it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. ~ Alice M. Swaim
[Photo credit: Creative Commons, Katie@!/Flickr]
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Is it possible to maintain a positive frame of mind once you’ve become educated to the realities of the world and forever shed “ignorance is bliss” illusions? Or does it naturally follow that gaining knowledge and understanding of human suffering and injustice consign a person to a life of despondency, disappointment, cynicism, and passivity? It depends.
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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life. ~ T. S. Eliot
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Retrieving my mail after an extended road trip, I was appalled at what I had failed to notice day to day … the barrage of bank ads urging me to write checks on credit (forget if I could repay or not) and sign up for more credit cards. The real shock was that they comprised over 50% of my accumulated mail and constituted a mini-McKinley mountain of garbage. Which made me think: What other things are slowly but surely forcing their way into our mental space?
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Don’t think for a blue minute
peace lies in dreamy eyes of smiling Buddha
blinking across fields of pink blossoms.
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In celebration of the life of Howard Zinn
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
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It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief
that human history is shaped.
Each time a person stands up for an ideal,
or acts to improve the lot of others,
or strikes out against injustice,
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As advertising has become more and more sophisticated and aggressive, the modern middle and upper classes have become increasingly susceptible to its primitive pressures and to judgments from others based on possessions. They either pass muster or they don’t. Though this is nothing new, the intensity of these pressures and the near-universal failure to cope with them are. Even in loving families where the importance of empathy, gratitude, and self-awareness have been taught, the worm of materialism has found entry. continue reading …
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