Notes on Love and Courage

I came across this blog post (from a blog which no longer exists) and was struck by the selected words of Hugh Prather  from a book called Notes on Love and Courage. These three snippets of wisdom really resonated with me. Read them twice.

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''Is your first responsibility to yourself? The question is misleading; that is, it misleads the person who takes it to heart.  It's like asking, must you shift your weight in order to walk.  Of course you must, but anyone who concentrates first on shifting his weight will not walk well."

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''Are there any wholly useless encounters? I know this: there are no insignificant people.  There is no one who isn't supposed to be there.''

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''We need other people, not in order to stay alive, but to be fully human:  to be affectionate, funny, playful, to be generous.  How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by? I can love an idea or a vision, but I can't throw my arms around it.  Unless there is someone to whom I can give my gifts, in whose hands I can entrust my dreams, who will forgive me my deformities, my aberrations, to whom I can speak the unspeakable, then I am not human, I am a thing, a gadget that works but has no ashes.''

Have a lovely week!
xoxo