Find Your Original Face

Just be what you are and don't care a bit about the world. Then you will feel a tremendous relaxation and a deep peace within your heart. This is what Zen people call your 'original face' – relaxed, without tensions, without pretensions, without hypocrisies, without the so called discipline of how you should behave.
And remember, the original face is a beautiful poetic expression, but it does not mean that you will have a different face. This same face will lose all its tensions, this same face will be relaxed, this same face will not think of others as inferior. This same face under these new values will be your original face.
There is an ancient proverb: Many a hero is a man who did not have the courage to be a coward.
If you are a coward, what is wrong in it? You are a coward – it is perfectly good. Cowards are also needed, otherwise from where will you get heroes? They are an absolute necessity to give the background to create heroes.
Just be yourself, whatever it is.
The problem is that never before has anybody told you just to be yourself. Everybody is poking his nose in, saying that you should be this way, you should be that way – even in ordinary matters.

(Osho, Courage)