The Courage Journey

14/01/2024

14/02/2023

Love is a condition so powerful;it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament.
It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins.
Courage:
you have to have the courage to love somebody becuase you risk everything- everything.
Maya Angelou

20/01/2023

In my heart of hearts,
I no longer want to be
Better than you
Smarter than you
Thinner than you
Prettier than you
Faster than you
Stronger than you
More accomplished than you
More creative than you
A better mother than you
A better friend than you
Better educated than you
ANYTHING more than you.

I want to walk this path
Side by side
In awe of who you are
In awe of what your gifts are
To see you only in love and light
With your beauty shining through
Just as you are.
And I want you to see me the same way.
For I really do love you
Just as you are.
I only thought I had to be better
In order for you to love me.

I drop this cloak of outshining at the gate.
It has been such a heavy burden,
An unnecessary burden
A self imposed burden.
Will you still love me
Being just as I am.
In my heart of hearts,
I know you will.

~ Katy Stevenson Wirth

http://awakeningwomen.com/2014/01/16/i-no-longer-want-to-be-better-than-you

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22/12/2022

Lit the light in your heart and invite and embrace your shadows, things you don’t like about yourself, all you have exiled and pushed away!
Time to hug 🤗 yourself!
Happy Xmas time! 🎄
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24/11/2022

The glorification of busy will destroy us. Without space for healing, without time for reflection, without an opportunity to surrender, we risk a complete disconnect from the authentic self. We burn out on the fuels of wilfulness, and eventually cannot find our way back to center. And when we lose contact with our core, we are ripe for the picking by the unconscious media and other market forces. After all, consumerism preys on the uncentered. The farther we are from our intuitive knowing, the more easily manipulated we are. The more likely we are to make decisions and affix to goals that don’t serve our healing and transformation. To combat this, we have to form the conscious intention to prioritize our inner life. To notice our breath, our bodies, our feelings. To step back from the fires of overwhelm and remember ourselves. It may feel counter-intuitive in a culture that is speed-addicted, but the slower we move, the faster our return home.

—Jeff Brown. Grounded Spirituality
https://amzn.to/3PGueaf

art | Harry Watson (1871-1936) Girl in a Tree

29/08/2022

This quote is perhaps Krishnamurti’s best-known, shared widely across the internet. However, at the Krishnamurti Foundation archives we researched Krishnamurti's vast body of work and we are now fairly certain this isn't an authentic quote of his.
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The origin of this quote is probably a book written by Mark Vonnegut (Kurt Vonnegut's son) about his mental illness (The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity). The book was published in 1975 and attributes this phrase to Krishnamurti, without giving any source. Vonnegut might have paraphrased or misquoted it, and it must have spread from there.
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The nearest direct quote we have found is:
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“Is society healthy, that an individual should return to it? Has not society itself helped to make the individual unhealthy? Of course, the unhealthy must be made healthy, that goes without saying; but why should the individual adjust himself to an unhealthy society? If he is healthy, he will not be a part of it. Without first questioning the health of society, what is the good of helping misfits to conform to society?”
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Additionally:
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“To help the individual to fit into a society which is ever at war with itself – is this what psychologists and analysts are supposed to do? Is the individual to be healed only in order to kill or be killed? If one is not killed, or driven insane, then must one only fit into the structure of hate, envy, ambition and superstition which can be very scientific?”
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Both from the book from Commentaries on Living.

Aldous Huxely, a close friend of Krishnamurti's, also has a quote that is remarkably similar:
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"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”

28/06/2022

What you accumulate is yours,
but it
is not you.

26/06/2022

"The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective consciousness, and if we want a new world, each of us must start taking responsibility for helping create it."

-- Rosemary Fillmore Rhea