Let's Talk About Courage

July’s Theme: courage

Since May, in intentional order, we’ve covered duality, trust, courage, giving a damn

With  d u a l i t y, we learned that we can hold two things at the same time that may seem opposite - like anger and love. There wouldn’t be any anger if we didn’t care. Like joy and pain - we really can’t experience true joy if we don’t experience pain. Like stillness and action - there’s a time and a place for both and it ebbs and flows. 

From there we talked about  t r u s t. Trust that where there’s anger, there can also be love. Trust that pain doesn’t negate joy and that joy doesn’t negate pain and that both are necessary and that you are strong enough to experience both. Trust that there’s a time and a place to be still and be quiet - there’s also a time and a place to take action.

Next,  c o u r a g e: Have the courage to be angry knowing that it’s rooted in love. Have the courage to experience joy and the courage to respect, and love, and allow the hurt and the pain. Have the courage to be still and listen and trust that we’re ok - also have the courage to take action even though there may be fear there… especially when there’s fear. In fact, it doesn’t take any courage to do anything unless there’s fear involved too (wow, hello duality).