Courage -the Joy Of Living Dangerously-.pdf -

To live joyfully, you must be ruin-able . You must accept that you can lose the money, the reputation, the relationship. This sounds grim, but it is the ultimate liberation. Once you accept that ruin is possible, you stop clinging. And a person who does not cling moves like water—fast, powerful, and free.

True courage is also the "courage to be an individual." It is easy to follow a crowd, a religion, or a political party. It is dangerous to stand alone and say, "I do not know, I will find out for myself."

This is your true nature. It is beyond fear because it is eternal.

Fear cannot be killed or mastered; it can only be understood. Repressing fear only drives it deeper, where it continues to manipulate our behavior from the unconscious.

The goal is not addiction to crisis. The goal is .