{"id":11486,"date":"2017-06-21T13:04:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T13:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/?p=11486"},"modified":"2020-04-23T13:16:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T13:16:15","slug":"fearlessness-and-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/fearlessness-and-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearlessness and Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Fearlessness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11487 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Fearlessness-300x122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Fearlessness-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Fearlessness.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear Readers,<\/p>\n<p>About a month ago I was inspired by the recent remake of \u201cBeauty and the Beast.\u201d Of course I had seen its earlier incarnations, but this version struck me. Belle, the teenage heroine, must still confront the former prince\/horrible beast to free her father and then herself, and in the process, she and the beast still fall in love; but, in this live action film, Belle\u2019s character is highlighted. It becomes clear that it is Belle\u2019s twin qualities of fearlessness and compassion that lead to her success and, ultimately, a happy ending for all. Yesterday, I saw the power of these same qualities magnified in the new movie \u201cWonder Woman.\u201d It was extremely moving to see a fearless \u201csuperhero\u201d speak of the importance of Love as she displayed compassion to anyone she could.<\/p>\n<p>The trope of Good vs. Evil is ancient and both of these female movie characters fight hard without concern for their own well-being \u2014 but these heroines alter typical fight sequences by bringing compassion to the story. They demonstrate how, in order to truly combat evil, and change the world for the better, they cannot let fear push them into acting reactively. Instead, their fearlessness keeps them calm, which allows them to access and express deep compassion for others. As a result, they not only defend themselves against \u201cthe bad guys,\u201d but also eventually beautifully transform everyone around them through love. Fearlessness and compassion working together are a potent duo indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers, About a month ago I was inspired by the recent remake of \u201cBeauty and the Beast.\u201d Of course I had seen its earlier incarnations, but this version struck me. Belle, the teenage heroine, must still confront the former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-corner","category-eng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11488,"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11486\/revisions\/11488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaorg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}