Courage to Act|Quest Article
Sacred Vulnerability
Vulnerability is the core of all emotions and feelings. To feel is to be vulnerable.
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During a sabbatical in the UK a few years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting a British Unitarian minister named Jane at a ministers’ retreat. I liked her instantly.
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Years ago, a therapist told me that people would rather feel absolutely anything besides helplessness.
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Arianna Huffington, the noted author and popular pundit, wrote a book entitled On Becoming Fearless. In it, she observed that too many women and girls today are afraid to be themselves.
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Perhaps you remember the story about Antoinette Tuff. She’s the woman in Atlanta, Georgia, who was working in the main office of an elementary school when a man burst in with an automatic rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition. Everyone got out, thanks to her.
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One of the things I miss most about home is having a comfortable place to sit. It isn’t something most people think about, but over time, it becomes more and more important.
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In theory, courage is a good thing. One of the best things.
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The older I get, the crankier I am about fear. My own fear, other people’s fear. I can see back across decades to all of the times when I have stood moving my lips soundlessly like the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz while some disembodied voice thundered, “QUIET!”
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” —T. S. Eliot
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A few months back 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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