Our Fears
May 17, 2008
Acknowledging fear is not a cause of depression or discouragement. Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear; but going beyond fear. – Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa
I like this idea of fearlessness being only something as simple as acknowledging and dealing with our fears rather than being able to have NO fears. I don’t think there is a person in existence who has no fears. We all fear things in life, it would be unnatural for us not to. Dealing with it in the right ways and keeping a cool head is how we can be truly fearless.
I think my skills at over-analyzing actually come to good use here because when you sit and think things through, and realize how trivial they are. You can really begin to see what good we can bring ourselves and other people if we can make ourselves overcome them.
On a different note, the book that I read this from is one awesome piece of writing. I’ve been studying it for the past 2 or 3 months although I haven’t yet finished it. Its not really even that long, I just end up going back and reading things over again because they really jumped out at me that much.
I’m also going to make an effort to write in this blog more, hopefully daily. And I want to try and quit going to myspace so much.. heheh.
