courage

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• Apr 10 The Struggle Toward the Heights Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (trans. Justin O'Brien) I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teac...
• Mar 24 Wake Upon the Sea Antonio Machado, Campos de Castilla, 'Proverbios y Cantares XXIX' (trans. from the Spanish) Traveler, your footprints are
• Mar 9 The Forest Without Paths Rollo May, The Courage to Create We are called upon to do something new, to confront a no man's land, to push into a forest where the...
• Feb 20 Before Shaping M.C. Richards, Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person Centering: that act which precedes all others on the potter's wheel. The bringing of the clay into a...
• Feb 5 Something Helpless Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terr...
• Jan 26 Crooked Roads William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
• Jan 21 The Only Question Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet You ask whether your verses are any good. You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send th...