courage is made up of the ability to continually find and home in on who you are, in any situation, in order that you can't have yourself outwitted or out-commanded, but that where ever you end up, you stand firm. This is only possible by you preferring truth to your past fear and your past aversion to the truth. That you immediately recognize and accept the truth from whatever direction it comes at you. -Emerson paraphrased by me