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It’s up to us to make the choice to be grateful even when things aren’t going well. Nouwen calls that the “discipline of gratitude.” To me, it means not just being grateful for the good things, because that’s easy, but also to be grateful
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“Staying in that corridor doesn’t just mean remaining where you are, being the same person forever. It means you shrink. You get weaker. More pathetic. Fear is a magic shrinking potion. If you don’t learn to harness it, it will make you smaller and smaller and smaller.”
― The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
― The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be “damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”
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― What Happened
“the fear of giving offence creates more problems than it solves. Ultimately what you’re scared of is that your hosts won’t like you because you’ve, say, thrown a chewing-gum wrapper on the fire. But most people are reasonable.”
― The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
― The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
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― What Happened
― What Happened
“Even in this genuinely fearful situation I was able to switch out of that default ‘Be careful’ mindset. It starts with clear thinking.”
― The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
― The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
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