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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">This courage, this heroism which the Divine wants of us, why not use it to fight against one's own difficulties, one's own imperfections, one's own obscurities? Why not heroically face the furnace of inner purification so that it does not become necessary to pass once more through one of those terrible, gigantic destructions which plunge an entire civilisation into darkness?</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/27-march-1957#p22</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The more you grow up, the more will you get over your fear if you let the contact with your soul develop in you that is to say, with the truth of your being and if you always strive that all you think, all you speak, all you do should be more and more the expression of this deep truth.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#p37</u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Fear is hidden consent. When you are afraid of something, it means that you admit its possibility and thus strengthen its hand. It can be said that it is a subconscient consent. Fear can be overcome in many ways. The ways of courage, faith, knowledge are some of them.</span>[<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/fear#p47 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14</fear#p47]ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The art of living would then consist in maintaining oneself in one's highest state of consciousness and thus allowing one's highest destiny to dominate the others in life and action. So one can say without any fear of making a mistake: be always at the summit of your consciousness and the best will always happen to you. But that is a maximum which is not easy to reach. If this ideal condition turns out to be unrealisable, the individual can at least, when he is confronted by a danger or a critical situation, call upon his highest destiny by aspiration, prayer and trustful surrender to the divine will. Then, in proportion to the sincerity of his call, this higher destiny intervenes favourably in the normal destiny of the being and changes the course of events insofar as they concern him personally. It is events of this kind that appear to the outer consciousness as miracles, as divine interventions.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/30-december-1950#p17</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">One who has not the courage to face patiently and firmly life and its difficulties will never be able to go through the still greater inner difficulties of the sadhana. The very first lesson in this Yoga is to face life and its trials with a quiet mind, a firm courage and an entire reliance on the Divine Shakti.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/patience-and-perseverance#p5</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The most terrible thing is when you do not have the strength, the courage, something indomitable. How often they come and tell me: "I want to die, I want to run away, I want to die." They get the answer: "Well, then, die to yourself! You are not asked to let your ego survive! Die to yourself since you want to die! Have that courage, the true courage to die to your egoism."</span>[<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/22-november-1958#p7 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15</22-november-1958#p7]ref>