The Compass: Navigating the Interior Journey

The Compass: Navigating the Interior Journey

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Courage Sunday

Courage Sunday

The essential virtue

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From Aristotle to Maya Angelou, it has been claimed that the fundamental virtue is bravery. Maya Angelou put it this way:

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

Here is how the same thing was first explained by Aristotle in an examinati…

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