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Empowering insight from Eastern and Western philosophy
- Author: Alex
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Courage - committing to a higher purpose
We come to the end of my posts on courage, for now. It was revealing to me to ponder the nature of courage and its importance. I never thought about it much before. Now I see that it makes ALL the difference. I see that courage is the cure for many ...
Courage - according to the Ancients
Courage is knowing what not to fear. PlatoCourage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls. PlautusCourage is a kind of salvation. PlatoCourage is its own reward. PlautusCourage leads starward, fear toward death. SenecaCourage easily fin...
Saying goodbye to mother
Once when I was 2 or 3 years old, my mother pretended to be unconscious or dead. Of course I called out and fretted and shook her and just before I got too upset she of course ‘woke up’ and hugged me. She told me if it ever happens again I must g...
Courage - Pericles\' funeral speech
I am reading Donald Kagan’s book The Peloponnesian War which tells the story of the long death struggle between Sparta and Athens and their respective allies in the fifth century BC. It is a gripping read as is Livy’s tale of the similar struggle...
Courage - never give up
To listen to all my talk of the courage of the ancients one would think there were no examples worthy of note closer to hand. But of course there are. We baby boomers are but one or two generations away from the last world war when another seemingly ...
Courage - what Leonidas said
Leonidas, the son of Anaxandridas and brother to Cleomenes, when one said to him, Abating that you are king, you are no better than we, replied, But unless I had been better than you, I had not been king.His wife Gorgo, when he went forth to Thermop...
