‘Courage’ is a form-related word, or an active-compassion related word. Courage certainly means the ability to ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’; but it also has the sense of really owning your capacity to love and care for others. We often stifle the great capacity for love that we have, through our fear of losing all sense of boundaries – as if we needed boundaries! Courage is very much linked with compassion. Compassion, at the level of our intrinsic nature, is linked with all our activities – especially our activities of personal interaction. p243, Wearing the Body of Visions, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books, 1995, ISBN 1-898185-03-4