Courage

Don’t shrink. Don’t puff up. Just stand your sacred ground. ~Brené Brown What an amazing struggle this can present. Not from a place of accepting the concept, but from a place of putting it into practice. My familiar response is to shrink. The tension in my shoulders can attest to that.…

“The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind of him that encounters it. ~James Allen This is parallel with the adage, “Mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When the mind is controlled by fear, all sorts of havoc can be encountered. There…

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. ~Neil Gaiman What isn’t mentioned is that sometimes you have to courageously stand your ground and passionately…

Your work is to discover your world And then with all your heart Give yourself to it. ~Buddha I love the poetic nature of these words. I am inspired by the message of these words. And I can be overwhelmed with the magnitude of these words. I can affirm, with every fiber of…

We are warmed by the fire, Not by the smoke of the fire. We are carried over the sea by a ship, Not by the wake of a ship. So too, what we are is to be sought in the invisible depths of our own being, Not in the outward reflection in our own…

Confined within a cycle of patterns are our silent cries to be known. In this life, within us, is a song calling out to be released of its enclosure. When we begin digging with the deep-truth questions and listen to the honest answers we uncover, we gain a new freedom. Every discovery becomes an essential…

You’ve got to know yourself. You’ve got to know what ignites your magic, what fires your soul into performing majestic acts of love. You’ve got to know yourself so much that not even a hundred voices will drown yours. You’ve got to own yourself: this journey is all yours. All yours. No one can do…

“Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to truth.” ~Pema Chödrön Yet again, this is a much needed reminder that fear is not something that needs to be resisted with every ounce of my being. Along with my acronym of fear (fully embracing authentic reality), this quote is the love nudge that…

Every burden bears a gift, every challenge brings a treasure, and every setback hides a blessing. ~The Universe (a.k.a. Mike Dooley) Transitions are tough. I continually like to believe that I get better at them over time, but I don’t. They’re uncomfortable. I feel disoriented and disconnected. I am less patient and…

Essentially, what I’m talking about…owning one’s life, for better and for worse, saying out loud, “This is who I am, this is who I’m not, this is what I want, this is what I’m leaving behind.” ~Shauna Niequist From Present-Over-Perfect I devoured this book in one day. I can assure you that it…

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