Universal theme overview
Perseverance is a child in the Universal themes series and is a member of the Process theme family.
Perseverance is staying on course despite obstacles. You stick to it knowing that the outcome is worthwhile. Strength and patience grow when tested.
Big ideas
- Commitments are the outward ways you show that you care.
- Accept what you cannot change and take risks to improve everything else.
- Think of patience as a muscle that you must build and maintain.
- Practice is the key to everything.
- Resilient people are calm and steady because they have experienced pain and know they can move through it.
Perseverance key concepts
- To commit means to do, so is deciding to do by fully engaging emotionally or intellectually to a cause or task.
- To experience is to try and know by practice, and the knowledge gained from living our lives.
- Flexibility is the capacity for movement, physical bending or mental influence. It is the measure of the ability to respond to changes in your external environment.
- Hope is a desire for something good, with at least a slight expectation that it might happen. Consciously cultivated confidence in a future event.
- Immortality is an exemption from death, it is something that has an unlimited existence.
- An injury is the damage caused from harmful or hurtful actions.
- Patience is waiting with calmness and without loss of temper through delays, pain, and various other offenses.
- A practice is something done frequently, as part of your normal activities.
- Resilience is the ability to spring back, to return to function after a loss or setback.
- To surrender is to give up control to another authority at its demand.
Archetypes
animals: badger, crab, manta ray, ox
birds: cuckoo, seagull
flowers: cactus, lelanchoe, zinnia
foods: brussels sprouts, peach, prickly pear
roles: underdog
settings: mountain
situations: storm
symbols: knot, semicolon, spiral