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Cup o’ Courage: “See the opportunity, not the obstacle”

October 30, 2013 by Jenna Filia Canty

Thank you Toni P. Filia, of Maineville, Ohio for her submission to this new weekly series on courage and connecting. As Brené Brown said in her brilliant Ted Talk, courage comes from the “Latin word cor, meaning heart — and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.” Cup o’ Courage is a weekly series that allows us to tell a bit of our story in a small but meaningful way.   […]

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Joseph Campbell and the “rapture of being alive”

March 6, 2013 by Jenna Filia Canty

“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive” (Joseph Campbell). “In the end, it is the people at home in their own human skins–people who love […]

Categories: Photography, Writers & Writing • Tags: authenticity, Broken Open, Elizabeth Lesser, farmer's market, finding meaning, humility, joseph cambell, Photography, rapture of being alive, San Francisco, writer

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