Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive … - Ted Malloch

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Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.

Ted Malloch

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

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Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.

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Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.

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Courage. . . is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.

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