Overcoming Fear

On overcoming fear:

One of the problems is that everyone has fears. Yet everyone denies their own fears as such, but pretend to ourselves and others that it isn’t fear that motivates us by a reasoned position. So long as we deny we are motivated by fear, we are impotent and being manipulated by someone else.

One of the great revelations of my life was seeing that everyone around me was just as afraid as I was underneath, covered over by bravado and denial. Once you can face this head on with no qualifiers, no explanations, no cover stories, you finally can take on personal empowerment. It is much more difficult to do this than it may seem. For me it took lots of guidance and work. For you it may be different.

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