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Not blaming ourselves for mistakes is the flip side of not taking credit for our acts of courage or creativity or leadership, or our good ideas.

— Charles Eisenstein The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible. The Vision and Practice of Interbeing (2013)

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We intuit also that something similar is possible collectively.

The Ascent of Humanity (2007)

Miracles are not the intercession of an external, divine agency in violation of the laws of nature. A miracles is something impossible from an old understanding of reality, and possible from a new one.

The unstoppable compulsion to act, in bigger and wiser ways than you knew possible, has already been set in motion. I’m urging you to trust in that.

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible. The Vision and Practice of Interbeing (2013)

We live within a cultural mythology that tells us we are separate beings in competitive relation for power, even for survival. We long to return to a culture of inclusiveness, cooperation, and the sharing of gifts.

The war against the self is the internalization of the war against nature.
We have been taught that we need an act of will to overcome our base natures. But when we try too hard to be good, we only separate ourselves from others.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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