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I Turn A Lot Of Stuff Down - Big, Big Movies, The Kind I Wouldn't Want To Go To The Cinema To See.

A Lot Of People Want To See This Idealized Version Of Heroism, All Pretty And Perfect, And I'm Not Interested In Playing The Goody-goody Hero At All.

Facing The Darkness, Admitting The Pain, Allowing The Pain To Be Pain, Is Never Easy. This Is Why Courage - Big-heartedness - Is The Most Essential Virtue On The Spiritual Journey. But If We Fail To Let Pain Be Pain - And Our Entire Patriarchal Culture Refuses To Let This Happen - Then Pain Will Haunt Us In Nightmarish Ways. We Will Become Pain's Victims Instead Of The Healers We Might Become.

A Job Is Something We Do To Get A Paycheck And Pay Our Bills. Jobs Are Legitimate, At Times, But Work Is Why We Are Here In The Universe. Work And Calling Often Go Together.

What Is Common To All Paths That Are Spiritual Is, Of Course, The Spirit-breath, Life Energy, That Is Why All True Paths Are Essentially One Path, Because There Is Only One Spirit, One Breath, One Life, One Energy In The Universe. It Belongs To None Of Us And All Of Us. We All Share It. Spiritually Does Not Make Up Otherworldly; It Renders Us More Fully Alive.