Be Courageous  —  You Have To

All emotions spring from either love or fear. They’re not opposites: fear is merely the absence of love.

It is easy to determine, whether a certain kind of behavior is rooted in love or in fear.

Take control for example: you will never want to control someone you love.

Control of borders, control of peoples’ behavior, control of what one is allowed to say or do: it’s all based in fear. The fear of what they might do or say.

Many people, whether on the political left or right, mistakenly believe they could achieve a peaceful world through control.

Our political systems all over the world are based on control of others. They obviously exploit our fears to expand their control.

But it should be obvious that you cannot build a peaceful world if your actions are based in fear.

The only thing you have control over, the only thing you have the right to control is: your self.

You alone can choose to do good or bad. Speaking the truth, stopping bad people from doing bad deeds, those are good things.

Delegating those duties AND forcing everybody to pay for it is a bad thing.

The only thing you should be afraid of is doing bad — and thus exert self-control to avoid exactly that.

Anything else, I’m afraid, is out of your control, even if politicians will tell you they can make things right for you.

If the thought of not being able to control others scares you, I suggest you develop some courage.

Because we have to be courageous if we want to stop evil. Delegating that responsibility to anybody else is an act of cowardice.