I’m going to read a section. This section talks about fear, because what stops us? What stops us from living our dreams? Usually it’s fear. Some kind of fear, fear of failure is a very common one. Probably the most common, I think, fear of what other people think. Fear of other people’s opinions. Fear of not being normal. Well, all these fears, everybody has them. It doesn’t matter who they are, even if they are a top performer. Even if they are super rich, super successful, super wonderful, everything is great in their life, they have fear and they had fear. So we have to learn how to deal with fear. So let me read about this topic. Here we go: “Pick an area of your life. Perhaps your intimate relationship, your career, your relationship with your children, or your spiritual practice. For instance, you are currently doing something to earn a living. Where do your fears stop you from making a larger contribution to mankind, from earning a higher income or from earning money in a more creative and enjoyable way? If you are absolutely fearless, would you be earning a living in exactly the same way as you are now? Your edge, your limit, is where you stop. Where you compromise your fullest potential, your biggest dream and instead cater to your fear. Have you lost touch with the fears that are limiting and shaping your income and style of livelihood? If you have deluded yourself and feel that you are not afraid, then you are lying to yourself. All men are afraid unless they are dead. If you cannot admit this, you are pretending to yourself and to others. Your friends will feel your fear even if you do not. Thus, they will lose trust in you, knowing you are deluding yourself, lying to yourself and are therefore likely to lie to them, consciously or unconsciously. Or perhaps you are very aware of your fears, your fear to take risks, your fear of failing, or your fear of succeeding. Perhaps you are comfortable with your life and you fear the lifestyle change that might accompany a change in career. Even though the new career will be closer to what you really want to do with your life. Some men fear the feeling of fear and therefore don’t even approach their edge, don’t even approach their potential or their limit. They choose a job they know they can do well and easily. And don’t approach the fullest potential they have within them. Their lives are secure and comfortable but dead. They lack aliveness. They lack depth. They lack the inspirational energy that is the sign of a man living his fullest. If you are this kind of man, who is hanging back, working hard perhaps but not challenging yourself, well then, other men will not be able to trust you. They will not trust that you can and will help them live fully.”
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 22:48:20 +0000
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