If we can face our fear instead of running from it, we find that
it contains the energy of the transformation we are seeking.
The terror becomes the teacher.
Marion Woodman, Dancing in the Flames
Sunday Quote: Containing the energy
Tag: Fear
traitors
Much of what holds us back is not reality itself, but the stories we tell ourselves about what might go wrong.
Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure.
Clear purpose
Courage is not the absence of fear.
It is the presence of clarity.
Deng Ming-Dao, 365 Tao: Daily Meditations,
Security
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you.
But if you can avoid avoidance – if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises – then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.
Martha Beck
Sunday Quote: A waste of time
We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That’s the essence of samsara – the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.
Pema Chodron, Comfortable with Uncertainty
Sunday Quote: Cage
We spend much of our time in a cage created by our own fear of discomfort.
Pema Chödrön
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