Posts tagged "courage" — Page 2
Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. Don’t be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions.
―The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with what there is.
―Ernest Hemingway
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The caravans had no food, and yet food was dropping
all about them. If anyone had said,
‘Look! Over here!’
they would have thought him insane, or drunk.
How can this happen? Or am I dreaming?
I walk up to the trees. I eat the fruit.
I might as well believe.
―Rumi
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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 what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.
―Unfolding the Stone, Terence McKenna
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Finally Pilate began to take offense. Although she was hampered by huge ignorances, but not in any way unintelligent, when she realized what her situation in the world was and would probably always be she threw away every assumption she had learned and began at zero. First off, she cut her hair. That was one thing she didn’t want to have to think about anymore. Then she tackled the problem of trying to decide how she wanted to live and what was valuable to her. When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?
―Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
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