To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences. David Whyte (Nicol Ragland Photography)Ĭourage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work a future. Poet and philosopher David Whyte considers the question of courage in Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words ( public library) - the ceaselessly quenching well of his wisdom on vulnerability, anger and forgiveness, and the deeper meanings of friendship, love, and heartbreak.
“Courage,” Susan Sontag wrote in her timeless and increasingly timely meditation on the power of principled resistance to injustice, “inspires communities: the courage of an example - for courage is as contagious as fear.” Courage comes in many guises - the courage to despair, necessary for being an artist the courage to be vulnerable, that surest yet most difficult path to self-transcendence courage at knifepoint, where our humanity is revealed the courage to resist cynicism.
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