What's happening? asks courage.
An explosive, deafening gale-force wind may be less powerful than a light breeze.
Satiety causes fasting.
It is easy to imagine possibilities, it is hard to imagine impossibilities.
They say hope deferred maketh the heart sick, but hope itself is the sickness.
Courage goes to its destination directly. It is also willing to remain there.
Fear can only be overcome by being enlightened.
Can you abandon life? See all emotions as cheatery? Hold to no security?
Courage is not gambling or risking to try something new. It is selling the lot for no return - but in that is everything.
Courage is thinking logically.
Bodhicitta, the uncompromising aspiration to perfection, provides no small impetus.
Courage rests in the realisation that no problems can be solved, ultimately.
Standing alone without the support and encouragement of humans, and taking one's stance in the Absolute, is the greatest of courageous actions. Even thinking that certainty is possible shows courage.
To believe in reason, and to orient fully to Reality, shows courage that is a marvel to behold. To do this without thought about the clash with society, few can claim.
Advancing consistently is far greater than beginning with a great burst of speed and then tapering-off. What else is patience but enduring memory of purpose?
Relating oneself to timelessness, how can one imagine a fearful situation?
Many bums and drop-outs and given-ups show more courage than social leaders. The collapsed shoulders, weather-beaten face, limping psyche, and weak voice is often more truthful than the "unpopular", virulent rights-activist.
"I still have a dream" - gritty conscience or delusion?
Imagination and will.
Being interested is far superior to being sick, fed up, tired, disgusted, and afraid. It's the difference between an imaginative child watching a tap dripping, and a sullen child who wishes to dream longer in bed.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how you run, your thoughts will keep pace with you.
What happens after stumbling? One falls and then get up, or corrects balance and continues. Falling is better, because one gets to know the terrain close-up.
I don't vote for the underdog or have pity on the persecuted. They'll always be there, and there'll always be plenty of sympathisers.
I'd much rather listen to the man who has fought wars, strove within himself, dared to be a unique self, and feared compromise and complacency above all - than the man who had no spirit and got used to putting up with irritants, because he liked things to be easy.
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