Words of Power: Courage

Monday, January 14, 2013

Courage

Frida Kahlo - Self-Portrait (1926)

Courage arises from its apparent absence. It can't be born from anything else.

It is brought forth with a simple choice. If you find yourself without courage, just conjure a short list of your greatest fears.

Choose one, and step toward it. Courage instantaneously arises.

It cannot resist. It must respond to the act of stepping forward.

Do not be DIScouraged by the simultaneous arising of even more fear.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear; it is simply the conscious act of stepping forward despite the fear.

Courage. From the root "core" as in "corazon" and as the Goddess "Kora."

Courage is not "found" in the human heart, courage IS the human heart.

You could not exist without it, because it is one of the indivisible elements of your innermost "core." You just have to recognize it.

-- Richard Power

Power's eighth book, Humanifesto: A Guide to Primal Reality in an Era of Global Peril , is available now in soft cover and Kindle versions, from Amazon and elsewhere.

About Richard Power

Richard Power is a writer, speaker and yoga teacher. He offers workshops, classes and private instruction in yoga and meditation. He is the author of 14 books, most important are Wyrds of Power: New Languagee for A New Reality (2017), I, the Dragon: Chronicles of An Epic Life Among the Humans (2018), and Secret Engine of the World: Further Notes on Primal Reality, Gaian Politics & the Arc of Human Evolution (2021). For more information on all of Power's other books, visit his author's page on Amazon.com.

For much of his life, Power worked in the fields of security and intelligence. He delivered briefings and led training in forty countries, and was an adviser to governments and corporations. His views have been featured in interviews on CNN, PBS, NPR and the BBC, and quoted in mainstream news media, including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters and Associated Press.

This blog explores new language for the truths of the ancient future, and reflects insights into Vajrayana Buddha Dharma, Kashmir Shiva-Sakti philosophy, Hatha and Tantra Yoga, the Shamanic path, and other aspects of the world's collective mystical heritage. It also offers commentary on art, music, literature, human rights, sustainability, independent journalism, economic justice and the Climate Crisis.