Reason Works Better When Emotions

Intimacy Requires Courage Because Risk Is Inescapable. We Cannot Know At The Outset How The Relationship Will Affect Us. Like A Chemical Mixture, If One Of Us Is Changed, Both Of Us Will Be. Will We Grow In Self-actualization, Or Will It Destroy Us? The One Thing We Can Be Certain Of Is That If We Let Ourselves Fully Into The Relationship For Good Or Evil, We Will Not Come Out Unaffected.

The Word Courage Comes From The Same Stem As The French Word Coeur, Meaning "heart." Thus Just As One's Heart, By Pumping Blood To One's Arms, Legs, And Brain Enables All The Other Physical Organs To Function, So Courage Makes Possible All The Psychological Virtues. Without Courage Other Values Wither Away Into Mere Facsimiles Of Virtue.

It Is Amazing How Many Hints And Guides And Intuitions For Living Come To The Sensitive Person Who Has Ears To Hear What His Body Is Saying.

One Longs For The Presence Of A Leader Like Lincoln, Who Openly Admitted His Doubts And As Openly Preserved His Commitment.

We Define Religion As The Assumption That Life Has Meaning. Religion, Or Lack Of It, Is Shown Not In Some Intellectual Or Verbal Formulations But In One's Total Orientation To Life. Religion Is Whatever The Individual Takes To Be His Ultimate Concern. One's Religious Attitude Is To Be Found At That Point Where He Has A Conviction That There Are Values In Human Existence Worth Living And Dying For.