“of all bad motives none may be worse or more hopeless than fear. Nobody, I think, has ever done good work because of fear. Good work is done by knowing how and by love. Love requires faith, courage, patience, and steadiness, none of which can come from fear.”
― The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings
― The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings
“Fear brings out the basest instincts,” writes British political scientist Sue Goss, “and narrows our sense of belonging to self-preservation.”16”
― Grounded: Finding God in the World-A Spiritual Revolution
― Grounded: Finding God in the World-A Spiritual Revolution
“The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.”
― An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
― An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
“Awe is the gateway to compassion. It is a deep awareness that we are creators, creators who work with the Creator, in an ongoing project of crafting a world. If we do not like the world or are afraid of it, we have had a hand in that. And if we made a mess, we can clean it up and do better. We are what we make.”
― Grounded: Finding God in the World-A Spiritual Revolution
― Grounded: Finding God in the World-A Spiritual Revolution
“The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust—and those elements are universally accessible. Which does not mean that creative living is always easy; it merely means that creative living is always possible.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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