COURAGE.

When you fight a battle you need weapons. And you must know how to use those weapons. When you fight your battle with that which 'you have been' for so many embodiments, you fight the battle with yourself! And in this battle where there is only one who is opponent and ally rolled into one being, there is also only one weapon, and that weapon is 'Courage'. But you must know how to use this weapon, like the true warrior knows how to use his weapons. And then what is courage?  Is courage 'when you stand up and shout’? Is courage 'telling a lie without blinking’? Is courage 'bullying another’? Is courage 'taking the law into your own hands' ?  Is courage 'intellectual trickery’? None of these is courage. They are only poor imitations. Courage is the power that you are and have always been. It is unseen and untouched, but felt in all intensity.  It has no beginning and no end.  And it is this power that you have to draw upon and use in this battle against 'you'!

In this battle, you have to first find the pattern the 'enemy' has been following, so that you then know the enemy's next move and trap him there and kill him with one swift blow of your weapon of courage. But who will help you to find this pattern that your
'enemy' has been following? You are the General and you are the Soldier!  You have to make your plan and you have to execute it. You are the 'enemy' and you are the 'friend' and who else but you know best the pattern of this 'enemy'? Is it sheer coincidence that you are born the way you are? Is it sheer coincidence that you have the parents you do? Is it sheer coincidence that you have the
husband you do and the children you do? Is it sheer coincidence that you are here? It is in all these faces around you that you will see small parts of this pattern that is yours. This one large universal mirror has cracked and its small pieces are those that you know and love and in each small piece of mirror you see your pattern. If you have ever given up a particularly complex jigsaw puzzle, we urge you not even to try this one! (Hearty laughter)

But once you determine, that ‘this mirror I will put back’, what you will find will be a beautiful secret. Though the mirror cracked into a million pieces when it is put back, it has not a flaw. What you will see reflected in that mirror is perfection. But first you need that weapon.