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Courage is Calling:
A little awareness, a little empathy, it doesn’t make us soft. It gives us confidence. Now we see what’s really there. Now everyone else is more scared than we are.
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Courage is Calling:
The brave don’t despair. They believe. They are not cynical, they care. They think there is stuff worth dying for – that good and evil exist.
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Courage is Calling:
Even the all-powerful sometimes find it easier to go along to get along.
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Courage is Calling:
All growth is a leap in the dark. If you’re afraid of that, you’ll never do anything worthwhile.
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Courage is Calling:
The fear you feel is a sign. If courage is never required in your life, you’re living a boring life. Put yourself in a position that demands you to leap.
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Courage is Calling:
…even if you put things off – you still have made a choice. You are voting for the status quo. You are voting to let them decide. You are voting to give up your own agency.
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Courage is Calling:
There are things worse than dying. Living with what we had to do to keep living, for one. Regretting that lost opportunity to have been a hero.
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Courage is Calling:
Fear speaks the powerful logic of self-interest. It is also an inveterate liar.
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Courage is Calling:
This moment, the present you’re neglecting – whether it’s an opportunity to do something risky and fun, or the call to do something harrowing but right – is all you have.
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Courage is Calling:
It’s actually all the ordinary decisions – the safe one, recommended by every expert, criticized by no one – that make us incredibly vulnerable in times of chaos and crisis.
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