Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
Every time in my life when I have chosen to delay following inspired counsel or decided that I was an exception, I came to know that I had put myself in harm's way. Every time that I have listened to the counsel of prophets, felt it confirmed in prayer, and then followed it, I have found that I moved toward safety.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.