13/04/2018
Heartfelt courage
The root of the word courage is cor - which is the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant,
"To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with acts of heroism and brave deeds.
Gut based courage arises when a required action is truly meaningful to your compassionate heart. Courage is a heart word yet it also takes guts for meaningful action to be taken, or maybe it's more compassionate and courageous sometimes not to take any action.
'Courage' is a noun, a thing, yet it is often about doing something and taking action so in effect you don't 'have' courage, you 'do' courage. It is a process. Doing words are verbs so you do 'couraging'.
"To be courageous means at bottom to be heartfelt. To begin with we take only those steps which we can do in heartfelt fashion and then slowly increase our stride to become familiar with the direction between our passion and our courage". - David Whyte
