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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">...true courage, in its deepest sense, is to be able to face everything, everything in life, from the smallest to the greatest things, from material things to those of the spirit, without a shudder, without physically... without the heart beginning to beat faster, without the nerves trembling or the slightest emotion in any part of the being. Face everything with a constant consciousness of the divine Presence, with a total self-giving to the Divine, and the whole being unified in this will; then one can go forward in life, can face anything whatever. I say, without a shudder, without a vibration; this, you know, is the result of a long effort, unless one is born with a special grace, born like that. But this indeed is still more rare.</span>[<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/26-january-1955#p40 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07</26-january-1955#p40ref>]
<div style="color:#000000;">… courage means having a taste for the supreme adventure. And this taste for supreme adventure is aspiration—an aspiration which takes hold of you completely and flings you, without calculation and without reserve and without a possibility of withdrawal, into the great adventure of the divine discovery, the great adventure of the divine meeting, the yet greater adventure of the divine Realisation... </div>
<div style="color:#000000;">But the idea is the same—that it is God who has chosen you, the Divine who has chosen you. And that is why you run after Him!</div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">And this is what gives—that's what he says, doesn't he?—this is what gives that kind of confidence, of certitude, precisely, that one is predestined; and if one is predestined, even if there are mountains of difficulties, what can that matter since one is sure to succeed! This gives you an indomitable courage to face all difficulties and a patience that stands all </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">trials: you are sure to succeed.</span>[<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/19-october-1955#p52 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07</19-october-1955#p52]ref>
<div style="color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/brahman-purusha-ishwara-maya-prakriti-shakti#p11</u></div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">...courage—but really it is aspiration. They go together. A real aspiration is something full of courage.</span>[<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/25-january-1956#p64 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08</25-january-1956#p64]ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The lion indicates force and courage, strength and power. The lower vital is not lionlike.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-animal-world#p20</u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There are people who... I have known people who were physically very courageous, and were very, very cowardly morally, because men are made of different parts. Their physical being can be active and courageous and their moral being cowardly. I have known the opposite also: I have known people who were inwardly very courageous and externally they were terrible cowards. But these have at least the advantage of having an inner will, and even when they tremble they compel themselves.</span>[<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/26-january-1955#p22 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07</26-january-1955#p22]ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There is perhaps a third kind, which is truly courageous, still more courageous than either of the two. It is the one who is perfectly aware of the danger, who knows very well that one can't trust these animals. The day they are in a particularly excited state they can very well jump on you treacherously. But that's all the same to them. They go there for the joy of the work to be done, without questioning whether there will be an accident or not and in full quietude of mind, with all the necessary force and required consciousness in the body.</span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">On the other hand, the second one has no affinity with animals, and so he fears them. But within himself he has much courage and goodwill, a will and mental courage and perhaps a vital one, which make him master his bodily fear and act as though he were not afraid. But the fear is there in the body. Only he has controlled it. Now it is to be seen whether physical courage or moral courage is greater. One is not greater than the other; it is courage in different domains.</span>[<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/26-january-1955#p24 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07</26-january-1955#p24]ref>