Sunday Reflections — Overcoming fear
This week, Sunday Reflections brings you thought-provoking words of wisdom on overcoming fear:
“Our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.” ~ Truman Capote
“I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own patterns of fear. All other things — the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos — are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.” ~ Caroline Myss
“When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.” ~ Byron Katie
“Too many people spend their life in fear of making a mistake. However, here is the truth: Fear is the mistake. If you block out all the doubts and listen only to what you feel in your heart, then follow that course, you waste less time in indecision and spend more time being authentic. Life is too short to settle for parttime happiness.” ~ Shannon L. Alder
“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.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people’s demands. We have learned to live by other people’s points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.” ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? We are all meant to shine…And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~ Marianne Williamson
“By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.” ~ Alan Watts
“What holds us back in life is the invisible architecture of fear. It keeps us in our comfort zones, which are, in truth, the least safe places in which to live…But every time we do that which we fear, we take back the power that fear has stolen from us — for on the other side of our fears lives our strength. Every time we step into the discomfort of growth and progress, we become more free. The more fears we walk through, the more power we reclaim. In this way, we growth both fearless and powerful, and thus are able to live the lives of our dreams.” ~ Robin Sharma
