Fortify courage

“The revolution lives outside your comfort zones.” – Devon Blow (@devthepineapple on Instagram)

“…One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” (Martin Luther King Jr. in his letter from Birmingham City Jail in April 1963)

Summon courage, build it up, train in it. Fortify our nervous systems and our protection strategies so we can navigate discomfort, pain, loss, fear. So that we can be part of the revolution for collective liberation.

Our addiction—my addiction to comfort and reducing stress at all costs by upholding the status quo is holding up true liberation for all.

So I must train. Train train train. Train in navigating stress and fear and pain and loss and suffering. I don’t ask for suffering, but I ask for courage when suffering comes. Courage that comes from the deep. The deep connectedness of all living things, beings, Source herself.

Fortify courage in every cell of my being, my vagus nerve filled with fire and steel. Armor my nervous system so that I can fight, so that I can push through extreme fear, anxiety, and stress to stay present and active in revolution.

I strengthen, practice mind-body-spirit exercises not for my own benefit alone. That is a side effect, not the goal. The goal is collective liberation. I fortify so that I can play my role in the revolution. So that I can be ready to fight, suffer, lose, even die if necessary.

As Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi said, “I’m going to die one day anyway. So it’s better to die standing up for my beliefs and cause, then to die naturally.”