Live with Courage

Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life.  Only dead people don’t feel pain, sadness, worry.  We can’t embrace a “dead person” perspective… the process of developing emotional agility isn’t about ignoring difficult emotions and thoughts.  It’s about holding those emotions and thoughts loosely, facing them courageously and compassionately, and then moving past them to make big things happen in your life.

                                                                           Susan Davis

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Emotions are

They just are

We can’t avoid them

We can’t deny them

We can’t suppress them

Without committing ourselves to an ongoing task

That will rob us of life

Cause us to narrow down our living to almost nothing

No!

We do not have bad emotions

We just have emotions

They just are

Part of the human experience

So when things assail us our response must be

“Oh, I am having a human experience!”

And the we notice, let go

And choose to embrace life, and love

Simple, yes

Easy, no!

Live with courage my friends

Live with courage