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Wash your courage

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What are some ways that I have washed my courage?

Told someone I loved them for the first time

Did something I knew I was bad at in front of a crowd

Wore something to work that was a little out of character

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What is washing your courage?

intentionally doing something that scares you

Why does your courage need to be washed?

It's easy to slip into comfortable loops. Breaking out of those loops makes you realize that you can be so much more than you are

What are some ways that I have washed my courage?

Does washing courage need to be with another person? Does it need to be a big event?

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Quite often I find myself within increasingly comfortable loops. I may be unhappy in those loops but the pain of changing is perceived as greater than the pain of staying the same.

What Goals Have I Been Afraid to Set?

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courage

What Goals Have I Been Afraid to Set?

personal growth

personal philosophy

vulnerability

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"we find a way [ in monogamy ] that is the least vulnerable and that becomes the path of least resistance but ... also the least sexy"

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"People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way."

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"When you are born," the golem said softly, "your courage is new and clean. You are brave enough for anything: crawling off of staircases, saying your first words without fearing that someone will think you are foolish, putting strange things in your mouth. But as you get older, your courage attracts gunk and crusty things and dirt and fear and knowing how bad things can get and what pain feels like. By the time you're half-grown, your courage barely moves at all, it's so grunged up with living. So every once in a while, you have to scrub it up and get the works going or else you'll never be brave again. Unfortunately, there are not so many facilities in your world that provide the kind of services we do. So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.""

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"the wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in its changing and change with it"

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"Let’s end by pointing out all the positive ways you can scare yourself and feel alive. You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things. Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul. Violence and desperation are brutal things to search out. Why search out the horror? It’s around us in real ways every day."

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It was something that kind of scared the shit out of me, and therefore I felt like I had to try it. I started taking classes and totally dove in.

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"Change didn’t scare Miles. Change was an opportunity, a chance to become something you were not."

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The second way of expressing truth is by being courageous and fighting through our fears and anxieties.

found the courage to choose

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Be courageous, be brave, be you.

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