The importance of courage (#1131)

I find that courage has a real place in every moment of our lives. The courage I am referring to is built upon the right and the good. I attending meetings where the phrase, "The courage to change things that I can", has become a settled principle within me. Yet to find the areas where changing things for the better can occur, I need to employ courage. Even in areas where fear is dominating, courage can still happen when the fear that is blocking us is overcome through courageous thought or action. Again, even in the little courage we express, courage can have a profound effect. It isn't hard to have courage either. When we incorporate the values of virtue, we actually diminish fear in most situations and gain confidence to express our courage because it is the right thing to do. Fear is all in our heads and if we choose to find courage there instead, we have come a long way toward fulfilling a sense of purpose in ourselves that cannot be easily manipulated or destroyed. We humans have an immense capacity to highlight our better natures if we would only choose to do so. We in this existence have formed a society, that can have our principled values at every situation, but for the ones who wish the status quo to remain the same. Power, influence and capital acquisition and maintenance seem to be dynamics that some in our society work like crazy to continue. It is as if something in some human beings has broken and they are unable to see a vision of the world where the human being is the greatest force and not some material or psychological illusion that gives only artificial advantages. We all need to let go of fear and embrace courage as a way to affect a more perfect society.