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| Written by Tracy Phaup | |
| Tuesday, 07 October 2008 | |
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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.
George Sheehan, one critic wryly said, is a legend in his own mind. "Of course I am. And you should be too. Each one of us must be a hero. We are here to lead a heroic life. When we cease to lead such lives, we no longer truly exist."
They cannot fathom how much you stand to lose in failure. You are the instrument of a fullest design. A hero learns quickly who can understand and who merely stands in the way.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences; in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.
We often think of heroes as extraordinary people with powers and abilities far beyond those of ordinary human beings. But when we really look, we discover that heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility greater than themselves - people who despite their doubts and fears commit themselves to action; people who go beyond their limits in what they think is possible. Ordinary people - daring to be heroes - are the greatest expression of human potential.
He was the stuff of heroes. And psychotic killers. If there's one
thing I've learned...it's that there's a very fine line between the two.
The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward, into depths where obscure resistances are overcome and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified to be made available for the transfiguration of the world. This deed accomplished, life no longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiquitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but with its horror visible still, it's cries of anguish still tumultuous, it becomes penetrated by the all-suffusing, all-sustaining love and the knowledge of it unconquered power.
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them- a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
What makes one heroic? -- Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
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