COURAGE TO STAND ALONE:

Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

Transcribed and edited by: Ellen Chrystal from the original audio tapes produced by Henk Schonewille of Amsterdam, Holland.

You never question the solutions. If you really question the solutions you will have to question the ones who have offered you those solutions. But sentimentality stands in the way of your rejecting not only the solutions, but those who have offered you the solutions. Questioning that requires a tremendous courage on your part. You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. Th at any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody. You cannot free yourself of that burden by trying to develop that courage. If you are freed from the entire burden of the entire past of mankind, then what is left there is the courage. -- U.G.

Book contains Henk Schonewille's Note, A Note on U.G. by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Introduction by Ellen Chrystal and Dialogues with U.G. in three parts: Part I : You don't have to do a thing, Part II: I cannot create the hunger in you; Part III: Nice meeting you, and goodbye.

Title Page and Table of Contents (30K)

The Courage to Stand Alone is published by the Anarchist Press and distributed by Autonomedia, 55 South 11th ST., Brooklyn, NY, 11211-0568, Phone-Fax: (718) 963-2603.

First Indian Edition, with a foreword by Mahesh Bhatt, published by Smriti Books [e-mail: sunitapb@hotmail.com], New Delhi, India, 2001.

You can order copies of the audiotapes of COURAGE TO STAND ALONE (The tapes are titled "GIVE UP") and of another audiotape called NO WAY OUT from Henk Schonewille, Hoogte Kadgk 55D, 1018 BE Amsterdam, Netherlands (Phone 31-20-420-7964).