Dear ,
There are a number of qualities that are helpful to cultivate on the spiritual path, and courage is one of them.
Courage…reflect for a moment on what it means to you… Is there a spark of courage inside you?
Courage is a potentially powerful force in our lives, and here's why.
We might notice how the mind limits us and keeps us from acting on our heart’s calling. We can believe these resistances if we want to, and things will stay the same.
Or we can tap into courage to guide us into our authenticity.
In fact, “courage” comes from coeur, the French word for heart. When we’re being courageous, we’re centered not in the confusion of the mind, but in intuition, inner knowing, and heart.
We’re aware of our truth, and we’re willing to open to it.
Courage is a quality of our inner experience—it’s something we feel—and it motivates actions that take us out of our comfort zone.
To be clear, awakened awareness itself has no need for courage. This boundless field of awareness has no resistance to anything, so fear and
doubt are irrelevant. It just unfolds, welcoming everything as it is.
Likewise, if you want things to stay the same, within your habitual ways of being, there’s no need for courage.
But courage becomes a support when you are
ready to answer the call to explore beyond the personal and limited fear-based identity.
We begin to lean into our truth and contemplate how we might align our everyday reality with this truth. Consider which of these might be growing inside you:
- A change in your career or
relationship;
- Exploring beyond your familiar patterns to question undesirable behaviors;
- Investigating your attachments;
- The possibility of an authentic conversation that is waiting to happen;
- Beginning to finally trust what life is offering you.
We turn away from the known and toward the great beyond—whatever that is for you—and this foreign territory may be scary. What will change? What will you discover? What if it doesn’t work out?
These are understandable fear-based stories of the mind trying to protect you. Courage helps you to take the step anyway.
I can tell you from my own experience that change beyond the known starts with courage, but eventually the fear falls away—a lot. You discover that the infinite unknown is so
alive and full of wonder that habits—and life circumstances that have been built on these habits—lose their pull.
Find courage and act, even on something small. It will forever expand your view of what's possible.
With much love...🧡
Gail
Note: Our weekly Coming Home gatherings will resume at the end of March.
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