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What does it mean?
Your courage endures even if your life does not, highlighting inner resilience.
In plain terms
You may lose everything but your nerve.
What can you take from it?
Cultivate inner strength that outlasts external loss.

Where it applies

  • facing danger
  • personal crisis

Putting it to work

  • meditation
  • risk taking

Questions to consider

  • What does it mean to keep your nerve?

Another view

Nerve alone may not protect you from physical harm.

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