Now you must understand that I am not speaking of courage. Fearlessness is not the same as courage in my mind. Courage is something which comes in a particular situation. So courage is a response to a situation. Fearlessness is a permanent quality, because I cannot say what I am fearless about. Like a man or a woman must learn to become love, we must also become fearless. So love becomes a state of being. Fearlessness also becomes a state of being. Courage comes and goes but not fearlessness. Because fearlessness is not aimed at any particular thing.

And now I come to the most important thing, that fearlessness cannot protect itself. Why? Because every protection we adopt is a sign of fear. So a fearless person has no protective devices, no protective attitudes, no protective character but is totally open to everything. So if a fellow has a gun in his hand and he says, “I am fearless”, we should laugh at him. So fearlessness finally means the same thing as love because love must be open, fearlessness must be open, totally, at all times. Therefore, only one who has become love can be fearless. So I think this is a thing which we have to very seriously think over, understand, accept and use it to transform ourselves.

So these are two important things I wanted to tell you from what these talks were about this morning. And so in our relationship between ourselves and in our relationship with Master, with God, with anything, the base must always be of love, which must be reflected in an attitude of total fearlessness. Otherwise, we are reacting to every outside stimulus with an initial fear leading to protection of the self, which leads to our closing the doors against an enemy who may not be there at all. Therefore, our doors remain always closed and they are only occasionally opened.

(Talk given in Chatel-St-Denis, Switzerland on October 20, 1991) Fearlessness/Courage/Heart, Constant Remembrance April, 1992 

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The whole problem of spiritual growth is the mental addiction that we create, imagining our intellect is superior to our heart. When humanity learns to trust its heart and use it (which means to love rather than to think), then the future of humanity will be not only spiritually bright but also a temporally safe and harmonious one.

Spider's Web, 2nd March 1991, USA

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 Love is a quality of the heart! The miracle of sadhana (spiritual practice) is that it brings about the transformation in the heart, changes it to what it should always have been—the embodiment of love! Then, as a lamp shines without expecting any return for it, similarly, such a heart loves—and goes on loving, no matter what happens—because that is its nature, and it has no idea of any return. In our philosophy there is the beautiful image of a candle, which illuminates all by destroying itself! Is it not beautiful? A person loves to the capacity of his/her heart. When the transformation is complete, the love is pure, ideal, and totally and absolutely self-less! Then also we begin to understand that there cannot be, and must not be, any question of deservingness in this matter of love. Does a candle shine on you because you deserve it? Can it discriminate between persons or things before it? It shines on all and everything because it cannot do otherwise. This is the great mystery of love and its Divine Beauty.

Spider's Web, Vol 1, 26th March 1984, Holland

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This is the message of spirituality: Love. Love so well, love so much, love so absolutely that your heart becomes capable of receiving that which is ever flowing for us, ever raining down upon us and then, in one second, the miracle is achieved that my heart is as big as the divine heart and now, instead of receiving, it starts to give. And that is the real beauty of existence.

Principles Vol. 10, p. 146