TEDTalks: Vulnerability

• Courage: to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.
• We can't practice compassion with other people if we can't first treat ourselves kindly.
• You can't form connections without being willing to let go of who you "should" be in order to be who you are.
• Whole-hearted people are those who fully embrace vulnerability, who believe that what makes them vulnerable makes them beautiful, and that results in a strong sense of worthiness.
• Vulnerability is the core of shame, fear, struggle for worthiness. But also birthplace of joy, creativity, belonging, love.

These quotes and paraphrases are from a TEDTalk by Brene Brown on her research into vulnerability.  These sentiments remind me strongly of tacit and his approach to life.  This is how I view the world too, but it took me a while longer to get here.

http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html

Brene Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity.