For the very first time Finding Inner Courage (previously titled Facing the Lion, Being the Lion) is on audio and will coincide with its trade paperback reissue as well as the audio launch from the Book of Awakening.

Finding Internal Courage can be an exploration into how to find our way to your core, to the stand by position our core, and to then maintain the practice of living from our core-to live out of our courage. To encourage means to impart strength and confidence, to encourage and hearten. Therefore, the issue about Finding Inner Courage unfolds: How do we encourage ourselves, each other, and the globe? And just what does it mean to live a life of encouragement?

If to get our way to our core is to face the lion, after that to the stand by position our core is usually to be the lion. Also to sustain the practice of living from our core-to live out of our courage-is to discover our way in the world by tracking inner courage and where it lives. These notions frame the journey of this book.

The courage we all admire, where ordinary people summon unpredicted strength to run into burning buildings or even to stand up to tyrants, whether an abusive father or an abusive leader, this inspiring and mysterious impulse to rise to an unhealthy situation, which Hemingway referred to as grace under pressure, grows from another kind of courage-inner courage. They are the ways of living and becoming that make bravery possible in the first place; not only as an event, but as an approach to life, as a way of life.

Thinking about courage in this manner starts us to a range of little and constant initiatives that no one ever sees, but which have transformed the world: the courage to handle ourselves, one another, and the unknown, the courage to see, to feel, to simply accept, to heal, to become. Efforts of the nature often go undetected and unrecognized. Just like the courage to break life-draining patterns and let the story of our lives unfold, to stand by one’s core, and to persevere through the doorway of nothing into the realm of everything. Just like the courage to select compassion over common sense and like over fear, to withstand the strain of opposites, and to give up what no more works to be able to stay close to what is sacred.