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April
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Today's
quotation:
It
is not that you must be free from fear. The moment you try
to
free yourself from fear, you create a resistance against
fear. Resistance, in any form, does not end fear. What
is needed, rather
than running away or controlling or suppressing
or any other resistance,
is understanding fear; that means, watch
it, learn about it, come
directly into contact with it. We
are to learn about fear, not how
to escape from it,
not how to
resist it through courage and so on.
J.
Krishnamurti
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Today's
Meditation:
I'm
afraid of a lot of things. Fear has been a very big
part of my life for as long as I can remember. I've
learned, though, not to try to banish the fear from my
life, because I think that would be impossible, but to
live with the fear, to recognize it for what it is, and to
accept it as a part of who I am. When I'm in
situations in which my fears grow strong, I don't try to
reject the fear and pretend it's not there; rather, I try
to listen to it and find out what it's trying to tell
me. What does it have to teach me about the
situation?
Alcoholics
usually can't just push their alcoholism out of their
lives. They have to come to terms with the condition
and live their lives with it as a part of who they
are. Likewise, I'm not doing myself much good if I
act as if I'm not afraid of something that I really am
afraid of, for the chances are that I'd end up doing
something reckless or foolish just to prove to myself that
I've "conquered" my fear.
Don't
get me wrong--I don't let my fears rule my life. I'm
terrified of heights, but I still climb a ladder up to our
roof when I need to fix something up there. I'm
afraid of crowds and large groups of people, but I still
put myself regularly in situations in which I'm a part of
a crowd.
I
don't, however, try to fool myself into thinking that I'm
not afraid of heights while I'm up there on the
roof. I pay attention to my fear and I try to
understand it, and I believe that's what allows me to go
up there in the first place--my willingness to accept the
fear that's trying to keep me from doing so. It's
never easy climbing up there, but I'm always able to do
so, no matter how much my fear is telling me that I
shouldn't.
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Questions to
consider:
What are you afraid of? Have you ever listened to
that fear?
Have you ever considered the possibility that our fears
may be a part of us in order to teach us some very important lessons about
ourselves?
What advice do you tend to give to people who are
afraid to do something? Do you follow that same advice when your fears surface? |
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For further
thought:
Fear can
infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of
apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking.
Fear is strong, but faith is
stronger yet.
Norman Vincent Peale |
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