Courage is not an option

ll around me I am seeing courageous people. 

People willing to look inward before choosing or acting. Rather than looking to satisfy external requirements, they look inside and honour what they know to be true. That truth is not absolute but it is their truth. Their truth cannot be measured as right or wrong but it is aligned to their highest aspiration. That truth requires the huge risk of showing the world who they really are.

David Whyte puts it beautifully when he says "To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we really feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences....To be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made."

These times call for courage not because we need to face some fearsome foe or fight for what we believe to be right, but because it is time to be a living example of our highest aspiration. In short, to quote a world champion of courage Mr. Gandhi, "it is time to be the change you wish to see in the world."

As more and more people wake up to the enormity of their being and the reach of their consciousness their foothold in a restrictive reality becomes more tenuous. Conditioned to a survival based reality the easy option is to hide your light. For some, greater awareness is harnessed to re-enter the survival games with a perceived advantage (good luck with that one!).

Those I am speaking of are facing down the contradictions in their lives not through opposition nor fear but through an integrity and self love. Realising that the existing structures and 'rules' do not fit their model of reality they refuse to comply with accepted (often low) standards of self respect and self responsibility.

As the shift in consciousness accelerates, the gap between the accepted and expected within this imaginal population widens. The fundamental difference between the planes of existence is quite simply the choice between conditional and unconditional. To act from a non-conditioned space is to "live through the unending vulnerabilities..." uncertain of and willing to be with whatever results.

To show who you are in every circumstance is the ultimate act of courage and the fading paradigm is ill-suited to that degree of honesty, and as a result more and more people are finding themselves unable to compromise any longer. As they begin to love themselves unconditionally they have to abandon the 'acceptable' and this challenges relationship at all levels, be it familial, romantic, business, societal, whatever. 

Being the love that you are has never been more important, and for those stepping into that breach courage is not an option, as they are aware that the emerging reality will be unlikely to support anything other than that expression.

For those of you demonstrating that courage at the moment, and you know who you are, a huge thank you, as you are indeed transmuting an act of courage into a way of being. .

...and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same.. 

Marianne Williamson

Lots of love

Go easy, tread lightly, free,

Love

Bill