The Secret of Overcoming Discouragement - Dare to Be Different (Ep. 21)
Lyrics
Dare to Be Different
by Donald Walters (Swami Kriyananda)
Dare to be different!
Dare to be free!
Dare to roam far
Like wind on the sea.
Fly like a gull:
Soar high on the air.
Be strong in your courage
When others despair.
Never in anger,
Never in haste,
Go without pride,
Be never abased.
Freedom is yours
If freedom you give—
To all give it freely:
In freedom you’ll live!
Mountains that stand up
Tall to the sky
Tell us no dreaming
Is ever too high.
Dare to climb boldly:
Brave that high peak!
You’ll never know failure
If bravely you seek!
Dare to be different!
Dare to be free!
Dare to roam far
Like wind on the sea.
Fly like a gull:
Soar high on the air.
Be strong in your courage
When others despair.
Comments by the composer:
1. A call to the Irish to seek in personal honor and integrity a higher freedom than can be attained politically.
–from liner notes to “Some of My Favorites” CD
2. Song Twelve, Dare to Be Different!
Many people equate submissiveness to custom with humility, and non-conformity with egotism. These equations are false. To try on principle to be different from others is, surely, a sign of egotism, but to dare to be different means to place sincerity above mindless acceptance of outworn customs. True originality means to act sincerely from one’s own inner being—one’s origin in himself. Only by that integrity can one achieve inner freedom, the birthright of every soul.
–from the book “I’ve Passed My Life as a Stranger, Lord” by Swami Kriyananda
