Norma Wong's rousing call to courage is not the absence of fear, but "what we are about in the face of fear and doubt."
Tag: Courage
Lucille Clifton – Blessing the Boats
Lucille Clifton's heartfelt blessing to those going forward into the mystery of unknowing, or adversity and the vast sea.
Farming in a Lilac Shirt
Poet, teacher and farmer Leo Dangel's poem about which parts of ourselves we choose to keep hidden out of fear of others' reactions.
Anthony Russell White – The Faith of Leaping
White's poem encourages us to embrace a larger trust in life; to risk uncertainty for the precious reward of life fully lived.
Eloise Klein Healy – Iris
Eloise Klein Healy, former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, has encapsulated so much in the two short stanzas of her poem "Iris".
Champions
BY VANESSA ABLE Since before they could talk, they knew. The fearlessness of a pre-schooler's heart that knows no endings.
Don’t Hit Your Head, Just Pass Through the Door
Osho on how clinging to a particular idea of love can make a marriage stale and how chasing after security can dampen the dynamic beauty of being in a constantly changing world.
The Only Kind of Courage That is Required of Us
"Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being." - Rainer Maria Rilke This passage from a letter is the source of one of the poet Rainer Maria… Continue reading The Only Kind of Courage That is Required of Us
Mary Oliver – When Death Comes
Mary Oliver's poem When Death Comes is a meditation on death and an uplifting reminder of the joy and importance of a life well-lived.
Imagine That Our Only Job is to Mirror Each Other’s Goodness
Ruth King is a writer and Buddhist teacher who focuses on working with racial identity in learning meditation and using the tools of spiritual practice to examine one's own racial being. King combines western psychology with eastern philosophy and indigenous wisdom to coach her students in becoming more aware of their underlying areas of fear and vulnerability as well as the key points of their own rigidity.