The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely must not do is to blink first.
I'm afraid to go out at night because it's too dark.I'm afraid to try different food because I may not like it.I'm afraid to do something different because what if I fail.I'm afraid to smile at someon...
(imp.) of Frighten
The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.
Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?
My fear of endings too often blocks my hope of beginnings.
I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey.
You won't become what you want to be, else you become what you fear to be.
Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.
…Do you think there’s somewhere else, some other place to go after this one? Mandy blurted out. You mean when you die, where will you end up? Alecto asked her. …I wouldn’t know… back to whatever void...
I cannot be afraid of being afraid. Rather, I need to realize that it is my fear that gives me the energy to wrestle that which I fear into the dirt that is soon to become the road underneath my feet.
Fear is a lethal killer of dreams, the greatest cancer that has beset passion, and a ruthless thief of lives stolen and buried in the decay of lives squandered. Yet the greatest tragedy of all is that...
Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.
Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wreckage is sometimes so enormous that the best of their efforts leave them strande...
Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.
An angry wife can be more frightening than an army of disgruntled soldiers.
My life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I have the next moment.
Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about...
The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.
Whatever the depth of our darkness, God navigated it eons before it was dark. And whatever the duration of our nights, God was there long before it ever turned to night. Therefore, despite our frequen...
I am amazed that without any hesitation whatsoever I can completely believe myself to be on a grand journey of massive vistas and bold ascents, only to find that they are nothing more than a figment o...