There's only one requirement of any of us and that is to be courageous. Because courage as you might know defines all other human behavior. And I believe – because I've done a little of this myself – pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom to move on in one's inward journey into new realms than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr as it is to be rash in battle.
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Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
