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There's nothing wrong with pursuing worldly success. One uses the material world, one enjoys the material world, but one doesn't make one's happiness or self-worth depend on the material world. You really begin to enjoy life and work when you're unattached because attachment brings anxiety. When you're anxious because you're holding on to something you can hardly be said to enjoy it. Detachment is not a withdrawal from enjoyment. It's a withdrawal from possessiveness, from anxiety, from tension, from depression at loss of something.
Fearlessness
Anthony De Mello and Don Joseph Goewey
It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
I followed up Daring Greatly very quickly with Rising Strong—a book that explores the process that the most resilient of my research participants use to get up after a fall. It felt like a mandate to write it, because the only thing I know for sure after all of this research is that if you’re going to dare greatly, you’re going to get your ass kicked at some point. If you choose courage, you will absolutely know failure, disappointment, setback, even heartbreak. That’s why we call it courage.
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