Courage

"Who you are with will determine what you can know and your ability to follow what you know. This means that who you are with will determine whether you can really be honest with yourself and whether you can recognize your true opportunities in life and have the courage and strength to follow them. Who you are with will determine whether you will discover your greater purpose and whether you can express it and prepare for it accordingly.”

"It is a very, very courageous thing to do to gain your freedom."

Directives

"You must become very courageous, which means you are willing to see things and hear things that have direct bearing on your life."

"You must have the courage to follow the deeper power within yourself."

"You must have courage. If you run away, there will be no place to hide, and you will only weaken your position, making you more vulnerable in the future. Time now is of the essence—time to see, time to know, time to prepare and time to encourage human unity and human freedom."

What courage is

"Stretching beyond your own ideas and assumptions and reaching out for something which is greater that transcends them is an act of courage, integrity and commitment to your personal development and to true contribution in life. This is the road to Knowledge."

"You are overcoming the world! You are overcoming everything the world wants you to think and to believe and to become in order to gain the freedom to become what you really are and to do what God has really sent you to do and to reclaim your own integrity and to have that come from within you and to have it be verified by others who are free enough to confirm this for you. You are overcoming belief. You are overcoming convention. You are overcoming the control of governments. You are overcoming the fear of God. You are overcoming your reluctance to say and do and follow what you really know is true. This is like a revolution! This takes tremendous courage! And yet what else is there to do? Do you want to stay on the chain gang or do you want to break free?"

Where courage comes from

"Only Knowledge can lead you to act courageously."

"Courage comes from recognizing and feeling a deeper need within yourself. It is really responding to Knowledge, perhaps very faintly and intermittently at first, but Knowledge is calling you to respond."

What courage requires

"Every act of courage and integrity requires overcoming something, releasing something and escaping something, both within yourself and outside of yourself."

Sources of courage

"God has placed a deeper Knowledge within you. It is the source of your integrity and your wisdom and your ability to see the truth and to respond to the truth. It is the source of your courage. It is the source of your strength."

"Where is your faith placed even right now? What will give you true strength, confidence, courage and determination?"

"It is this Knowledge now that must come to the fore, for this is what will give humanity the strength and the courage and the determination and perseverance to carry out what will be necessary."

"Your Spiritual Family is with you. You are not alone. They are here to serve you, to nurture you, to empower you and to give you the true abilities of discernment and right engagement in your relationships. And they are here to give you the courage and the skills necessary to become a contributor in the world."

"You will need companionship for encouragement, for discernment and for the courage to identify and eliminate your obstacles."

"The quality of your relationships with others will largely determine the kind of life you will have, what will be available to you, the vision you will have and the degree of courage you will have to follow the movement of Knowledge within yourself."

"You need others. And you will need them for the right reasons. You will need them to substantiate what you know. You will need them to support and to encourage your greater incentive in life. You will need them to echo your deeper inclinations. You will need them to demonstrate courage while you are learning courage. And you will need them to take courage where you yourself have demonstrated courage."

"Your experience of the Divine has the possibility to expand, to grow and to become evermore magnificent and effective, evermore a form of security and a foundation for courage for you. t will give you courage and greater determination."

The courage to walk the Way

"Learning a Greater Community Way of Knowledge requires courage because you must risk your ideas. You must risk your conclusions. And you must be willing to proceed even at times when you feel very uncertain about yourself or what you are doing."

"It is openness, courage and greater motivation in learning that will carry you through."

From the teaching on courage received August 9, 2015

"People do not understand what courage really means and what it must serve. To be courageous in serving one’s wishes, beliefs, one’s grievances, to risk oneself for these things cannot really be courage. It is just foolishness. It is an error. It is incorrect. To risk your life for something incorrect is incorrect. To exert yourself fervently and completely for something that is untrue is untrue. It is what you serve here that makes all the difference. What do you serve? Do you serve yourself? Do you serve your ideas? Do you serve your convictions? Do you serve your grievances? Do you serve a position against others who you think oppose you? Who do you serve? And is this service constructive? Is it life giving? What do you protect? And what are you willing to destroy? What you serve makes all the difference. So what do you serve? The world demonstrates courage in service to so many things—people’s lives being forfeited; people’s lives being risked, people’s lives being used as weapons of war, as tools of the state or some kind of ideological movement, creating ever more grievance, death and destruction. It all comes down to what you serve, who you serve, why you serve."

Practice

"When you first wake in the morning, before you have become engaged with the world, take these moments to be with the Presence. Think about it. Sense it in the atmosphere of the room. Listen for it. Let your mind be still. Let your mind be engaged in listening. When you have reached the point of discovery, beginning to discover your greater work in the world, you will need the power of this Presence to give you strength and confidence. You will need its reprieve, its peace, its depth and the power of its relationship to you. It will give you courage and greater determination."

See also

Courage fails

Courage to see

Crucible for courage

Dissatisfaction

Greater work

Mission

Risk

The first to respond

Wisdom

Further study

• Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 2, Chapter 19: Courage

• The Journey to a New Life, Chapter 9: Courage and the Will to Prepare

Recordings available to the Worldwide Community

• Finding Determination and Courage

The Courage to Prepare