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I started thinking of the capacity we as a species have for darkness. We not only do not make it a daily effort to put down and rise above the most foul aspects of our being (for instance to kill for nothing, and to be beholden to imaginary constructs), we actively spread our darkness to other creatures not of our own species. For example, the animals which have been with us some of the longest time, domestic dogs and house cats, exhibit the same behavior of killing for nothing. We and our cousin species chimps were the only ones to do these things, and we have not managed the darkness in our nature and have more gravely become the agents of calamity by making internal flaws take the form of a virus which spreads. I read yesterday, on a juice bottle no less (which made me think, is nothing sacred, and has it become so common that it does not even give us pause) an old quote having to do with courage. It said courage is not the absence of fear but rather the recognition that something is more important than personal fear. I would agree, and encourage all to recognize moments to be courageous more often and become warriors in the revolution of the heart.