Courage

thank you bernice for helping me to put up the tagboard on my blog! even after more than a year blogging, I still do not have any clue on how to use all these template settings and what not. haha.

As per normal, I'm home the whole day today. I did nothing much other than watching tv or reading.

Let me share some nice paragraphs and quotes I found in the book:

The Book of Courage by Hans Wilhelm

What is courage? The root of the word "courage" is the Latin word cor, which means "heart". Our English word "core" has the same Lation root. Webster says that "courage implies firmness of mind and will in the face of danger or extreme difficulty." A person with courage is someone who has faith that all necessary and energy will be available to him or her in case of need.

The ego is frightened about anything unfamiliar, such as future or change. It doesn't want us to see our full potentiality and our true identity.

When we are scared about the Future

Embracing uncertainties is something most of us are not comfortable with, particularly in times of drastic changes. We do everything to obtain and maintain certainty in our lives to buffer us from any winds of change. We sign up for things such as marriage licenses and insurance policies to feel “secure”. This deep desire for certainty comes from our ego, which can only deal with the unknown, the past. The ego wants certainty on its own terms, but these terms are all fallacies.

It is our soul that wants to evolve, grow, and experience life. And for this our soul needs change as much as lungs need air to breathe. Our soul has consciously chosen to come to this world at this particular time because of all the changes that are upon us. We did not come to hide and hold onto the old. We are here to experience, explore- and also enjoy- all the exhilarating uncertainties that are coming our way. As every toddler enjoys his or her first own successful steps, so can we find pleasure from observing our own growth process even in the worst of times.

Uncertainty is the basis of life because life is change. It is the Gift from God and it is up to us to revel in it and rejoice at every turn. He who is not afraid of uncertainties will walk free in the face of all adversities.

Let us embrace uncertainties as an essential ingredient of our experience of every day. The more uncertainty, the more joy in our life. In uncertainty there is pure creativity and freedom. The fun, the excitement, the adventure, and mystery in life are always in taking some risks. At any moment in our life we are standing on the threshold of the long- sought- after new beginning.


Currently reading: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr Joesph Murphy