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		<copyright>&#xA9;Courageous Leadership, Inc. </copyright>
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		<title>Living Deliberately</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.&#8221;  
Henry David Thoreau
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		<title>A True Participant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When an individual is no longer a true participant, when he no longer feels a sense of responsibility to his society, the content of democracy is emptied.  When culture is degraded and vulgarity enthroned, when the social system does not build security but induces peril, inexorably the individual is impelled to pull away from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Opening of Eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In seems appropriate that in the midst of so much constriction driven on by personal and collective fear that we open our eyes to break through our illusions and open up to deeper and ever present Truth.  If our attention is not dualistic as good or bad we could launch  into hundreds of possibilities and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Journey&#8221; by Mary Oliver</title>
		<link>http://www.courageousleadership.com/blog/2009/02/03/the-journey-by-mary-oliver/</link>
		<comments>http://www.courageousleadership.com/blog/2009/02/03/the-journey-by-mary-oliver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamont Moon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice  -  though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles.  &#8221;Mend my life!&#8221;  each voice cried.  But you didn&#8217;t stop.  You knew what you had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live that Your Life Might be Complete</title>
		<link>http://www.courageousleadership.com/blog/2009/02/03/live-that-your-life-might-be-complete/</link>
		<comments>http://www.courageousleadership.com/blog/2009/02/03/live-that-your-life-might-be-complete/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamont Moon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Make no little plans.  They have no magic to stir men&#8217;s blood.&#8221;   Daniel H. Burnham
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		<title>Joining Others</title>
		<link>http://www.courageousleadership.com/blog/2009/02/02/137/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamont Moon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean for us to be &#8220;in&#8221; with a group that we join?  What are the requirements for membership?  Is it that we bring something to the group that it values?  Are we important because of the past credit or the promise of future pleasure?  Is agreement to core ideas and behavior the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Dark Woods</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamont Moon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the darkness, the eye begins to see
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		<title>Happiness has a Cost</title>
		<link>http://www.courageousleadership.com/blog/2009/01/27/happiness-has-a-cost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamont Moon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.&#8221; Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Can we relinquish our insistence to have power over our experiences and see that life is richer as we choose power through our experiences no matter what they may be?
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		<title>Making it Real</title>
		<link>http://www.courageousleadership.com/blog/2009/01/27/making-it-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamont Moon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To know and not to do is to not know
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		<title>The Quality of Mercy</title>
		<link>http://www.courageousleadership.com/blog/2009/01/27/the-quality-of-mercy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamont Moon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PORTIA  Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
The quality of mercy is not strain&#8217;d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
&#8216;Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe [...]]]></description>
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