Monday, October 16, 2023

Quiroga - 111

THE ALCHEMIST

In the same place where your fear is you will also find your courage, this is a truth independent of opinions and points of view, but just as true is that you will not discover the courage behind fear by spontaneous generation, as a result of a coincidence nor by a miracle granted by superior forces.

To find the courage that hides behind the fear that paralyzes and dwarfs you, you will have to dare to endure with relative dignity the visible and invisible tremors that confess your fragility, you will also have to endure the intestinal cramps that recite your vulnerability and pass through all discomforts, because by doing so you will discover that there is a threshold where fear turns into courage.

The transformation of fear into courage is an intimate process, a bet in the dark that you need to make to prove that these words are not just a motivating incentive, but the prophetic verb that describes how any human being is capable of being greater than the fear he feels, how much any human can become the alchemist who transmutes lead into gold. 

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