Excessive fear is always powerless.
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The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.
We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.
Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.
Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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