Clinging to Fear

Living in fear doesn’t mean what I once thought it meant. If you had asked me last year if I live in a state of fear I would have said no. Consciously I didn’t feel I was living in fear. I had mastered the skill of not worrying, had very little anxiety and could manage so many stressful things with grace.

What I wasn’t aware of at the time was that huge pieces of my identity were fabricated in fear. My perception of reality and lies I’d tell myself were based in fear. My inability to see this was especially based in fear.

As you begin to dismantle the shadows, stories and distortions, you begin to realize you’ve built a sel imposed prison.

It’s only once you begin to dismantle the fear, you gain the ability to love without attachment. Fear is what keeps us chained to suffering.

The only way to move past the fear is to remove the delusions from our lenses and walk through it. That’s when we realize the chains were only an illusion of the mind.

Once you move past this, you gain a new sense of clarity and freedom. The more we shed fear, the closer we get to honest love.