Integral Courage Wellness & Education Our Sacred Purpose of Openness
“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.”
Susan Polis Schutz


“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”
James Dean


“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Engaging a Phenomenal Journey

Every moment is an incredible milestone. Our mysterious footsteps through this journey called living, dispenses reminders of our illusions of control. Yes - our lives are intertwined with difficulty. To be alive and joyous is to confront sickness, death, fears of uncertainty, despair, grief and disappointment. Everything we cling to, including loved ones, homes, and careers are impermanent. One step. One moment. One life.

Confronting Simple Truth

There is no limit to the ocean of understanding that realizes misery comes at us through avoidance of impermanence.Yet we want to believe it easier and more comfortable to engage in illusion and distraction. One of the simplest principles: The only certainty is that all will change.

Opening to Inherent Wisdom

Immersed in the knowledge to achieve - but never the wisdom to realize worth. Untold numbers of tools to seek pleasure - but what of the sources of joy and happiness. World science is entralled with visions of universal understanding but the vastness of consciousness; the mystery of our being and the integration of mind and spirit remain elusive. One touch of this sacred inner world can forge a path that only moments earlier was seen as impossible.

Accepting the Challenge

The challenge of living is to openly confront and experience these truths of existence. The only method to properly outfit a warrior of personal truth comes from this mysterious power of inner spirit. The eternal river of our existence, this unstoppable magnificence called the passage of time is so inappropriately called the mundane. Our day to day tasks and routines are the necessary duties and responsibilities of living while the task of our happiness and service in the world is to find the sacred.


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