From the book: Courage by Osho - Part 2
*- The word courage is interesting. It comes from the Latin root cor, which means “heart.” So to be courageous means to live with the heart. And weaklings, only weaklings, live with the head; afraid, they create a security of logic around themselves. Fearful, they close every window and door - with theology, concepts, words, theories - and inside those close doors and windows, they hide.
The way of the heart is the way of courage. It is to live in insecurity; it is to live in love, and trust; it is to move in the unknown. It is leaving the past and allowing the furture to be. Courage is to move on dangerous paths. Life is dangerous, and only cowards can avoid the danger - but then, they are already dead. A person who is alive, really alive, vitally alive, will always move into the unknown. There is danger there, but he will take the risk.
The heart is always ready to take the risk, the heart is a gambler. The head is a businessman. The head always calculates - it is cunning. The heart is noncalculating. The English word courage is beautiful, very interesting. To live through the heart is to discover meaning.
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I remember someone telling me about something similar to the last sentance once; To live through the heart is to discover meaning. Because how many times haven’t I found myself planning and thought that I’ve figured out my life for a while, and only to be beaten down and being bored out of my mind again. Then, sometimes I just go with my intuition and just live spontaneously and in the moment, feeling completely free and that my life is full of wonder, that is until my mind catches up and starts to calculate again.
What I wrote in my first post in this journal. What I mean by this I guess is to live and lean into love, not just romantic love but the love for life, the love of not knowing anything of what this life is. Because a logical life is dull and makes you feel dead on the inside. Wearing your heart on your sleeve takes being vulnerable and humble, but owning it completely makes it your greatest strength.
But also one could argue that a life devoid of logic and only spontaneity would most certainly lead to an early death, so a balance is needed of course…
Hm, and I’,m a libra… should’t I be an expert on this little thing of distributing the loads evenly?
This morning made a great point. I overslept and was very tired as I woke up, and that all made me have some negative thoughts, which then resulted in a heavy mood, which just set of a negative spiral until I became enough awake to pull myself out of it. Energy management is everything, and by me not always managing that aspect makes me suffer when it is not necessary.