A reblog for new followers since December and this one seems timely for me to revisit. Fear drives so much human drama on our planet. We need skills of mindfulness to deal with it.
I wonder a lot why its so hard to for us to love in this world, why it is most of all so hard to be kind and loving to ourselves. If it is true that the opposite of love is fear and if a lot of our anxiety is about fear then doesn’t the widespread prevalence of anxiety these days say something about what we are about as a culture and how wounded our cultural bias really is at times? Geared more towards feelings of lack and deprivation and not enoughness so often than towards feelings of abundance, faith, trust and enoughness?
There is a powerful quote by the spiritual teacher Marianne Williamson which really speaks to me. She said : Love is what we came here with, Fear is what we learned here. Much of what she has written in many of her books based on The Course…
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