Being free of fear

Thinking has been a survival tool...

a way I've coped with fear...

always analyzing, worrying.

I thought that if I knew the answer,

 it would fix the situation.

Today I don't spend a lot of time thinking...

I'm too busy living...

trusting...

enjoying.

 

There's no need to figure life out anymore...

 or fight to make things go my way.

 I took the power away from fear...

by surrendering it...

practicing faith...

and living in the moment.

 

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I have not ceased being fearful,
but I have ceased to let fear control me.
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change,

the fear of the unknown;
and I have gone ahead

despite the pounding in my heart that says:
turn back, turn back...

 

Erica Jong

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"I surrender fear so I may live from my heart"