# Courage. Faith.

By [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2) · 2025-11-04

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Somewhere inside, perhaps the heart, the stomach, or someone else, there’s that sensation. It’s a vibration, like a massager gently rolling, but this one emanates out.

It’s a “feel.” It’s a “vibe.” There’s some deep, primordial almost, resonance where the body acts like an instrument, reading the moment and guiding us in one direction or another.

Sometimes it’s subtle. Perhaps too subtle. Like a faint breeze across your nose.

Sometimes it’s overwhelming. Perhaps too much. Like that moment when you know you’re getting a cold.

There’s no logic or rational to it. It’s formless. It’s the faith that there’s an inner voice speaking an eternal wisdom which deserves attention.

Courage is the practice of learning to clearly hear that inner voice and then to move in the physical world based on it…even if all of the outer voices (our own and those around us) tell us to do something differently.

And the ultimate courage is to continue doing it when we thought we heard the voice and we acted, but it turns out, we

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