Reading Archive (Fear)
I Will Not Die an Unlived Life
I will not die an unlived life I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living...
When You Don't Choose Love You Choose Fear
If we could literally reach into you and remove all your fears – every one of them – how different would your life be? Think...
Dropping That Drug
If we really dropped illusions for what others can give us or deprive us of, we would become alert. The consequence of not doing this is...
Fearlessness can Coexist with Fear
In meditation and in mindfulness practice, we are learning to replace fear with trust, not as an ideal or abstraction, but as a sense of...
Learning to Stay
In meditation we discover our inherent restlessness. Sometimes we get up and leave. Sometimes we sit there but our bodies wiggle and...
To Know Without Needing To Understand
Usually, we search for understanding because we believe that it will lead to true...
Learning to 'Presence'
When any of us acts in a state of fear or anxiety, our actions are likely to revert to what is most habitual: our most instinctual...
The Spirit of Karma Yoga
What is Karma Yoga? Karma Yoga is a selfless act. Any work which does not directly fulfill your ego is Karma Yoga. If someone's tire is...
A Heart Of Warmth Is Not Something Impossible
What does love mean? In the West, we mistake the meaning of love; we bandy the word around all the time, from “I love...
Finding the Deepest Joy in Relationships
One very helpful tool in both clarifying and working with our relationship difficulties is to return to the three questions: Am I truly...
Recognizing the Real Fear
In the sphere of human relations, faith is an indispensable quality of any significant friendship or love. “Having faith” in...
Love is the Source of Fearlessness
Some of the prison bars that we have constructed for ourselves are our fear of losing our jobs. Our fear of not being liked. Our need for...
The Endurance to Observe
There is little I have heard from others -- and it is my daily business to listen -- that I have not seen in myself as I sit. But I also...
No Mistake is Fatal
Our minds are pretty chaotic systems, which is why following the middle way is so difficult. It's so easy for a chaotic system to get...