Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 8231

Living Dangerously [1]

There is a coward in every human being – precisely the part in him which insists on “safety” – for that is certainly not a brave attitude. I admit however that I would like safety myself if I could have it – perhaps that is why I have always managed instead to live dangerously and follow the dangerous paths dragging so many poor X’s in my train.

5 January 1935