It takes Courage (Coeur) to trust in life,

to embrace the natural unfolding

to experience the shadows that reveal the light.

And to dance in sheer delight

It takes Courage to drop the veils of safety

those menacing defense mechanisms.. .….

It takes courage to dive in with complete abandonment

To feel the bodies own wisdom as sensations arise and energize.

It takes courage to reach beyond ones limits

to accept rewarding failures that lands us

in the depths of self love and compassion.

trusting in life…. remembering what it feels like.

It takes courage to knock on vulnerabilities ‘s door

Walking in to discover the fool had more valor than before.

It takes courage, not to run from moments of overwhelming desire.

Patiently listening to the contented choir.

It takes courage to loosen the gripe on duality’s diversions

Not pacifying the selfish perversions

To unmask labels that created conformity

Confining our curiosity for honesty and enormity.

It takes courage to get up again and again and again.

Each time with less ego, less pride, less anger

Becoming malleable to the winds and tides of change.

It takes courage to let go of the familiar and the pleasurable deranged.

It take courage to confront false ideas of oneself

Those self imposed and those imposed externally.

Everyday arriving closer and beyond yesterday’s struggles

setting the present free and liberating the future.