{"id":418,"date":"2016-09-16T04:07:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T04:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=418"},"modified":"2016-09-16T04:07:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T04:07:21","slug":"choose-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Choose Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI know fear is natural! But don\u2019t get caught by it. Leave it aside. Move in spite of it. Always remember: the difference between a courageous man and a coward is not that the courageous man has no fear and the coward has fear \u2013 no. That is not the difference. Both have fear! in the same proportion. Then where is the difference? The difference is that the courageous man goes in spite of the fear, and the coward stops because of the fear. Both have fears!<\/div>\n<div>\u201cIf you can find a courageous man who has no fear, then how will you call him courageous? He will be a machine, not a man. Only machines don\u2019t have fear. But you don\u2019t call machines courageous. How can you call a machine courageous? Courage simply means that something is happening in spite of the fear. The fear is there, the trembling is there, but it is not stopping you, you are not being blocked by it. You use it as a stepping-stone. Shaking, trembling, but still you go into the unknown.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cBoth possibilities exist in every human being! Fear and courage. All will depend on which you choose between the two. Never choose fear. It cripples. It paralyzes. It destroys you without giving you a chance of resurrection. Courage will also destroy you, but that destruction is very creative \u2013 it will give you rebirth.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cFear and courage, both destroy \u2013 but fear simply destroys. The seed simply goes rotten. When you sow the seed of courage in the soil, then too it dies \u2013 but it doesn\u2019t go rotten. It dies\u2026it dies into a new phenomenon. A sprout comes up.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cCourage will kill you as much as fear, but fear will simply kill you without giving you a new life. Courage will give you a new life. Choose courage \u2013 always choose courage.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Osho,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osho.com\/shop\/en\/audio-books\/individual-osho-talks\/walk-without-feet-life-answer-mahavir\" target=\"_blank\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind<\/span>,<\/em>\u00a0Talk #4<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI know fear is natural! But don\u2019t get caught by it. Leave it aside. Move in spite of it. Always remember: the difference between a courageous man and a coward is not that the courageous man has no fear and the coward has fear \u2013 no. That is not the difference. Both have fear! in the same proportion. Then where<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feelthefear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}