Fear

Overemphasis on Thinking Our western culture I think overestimates the importance of thinking. For instance, our schooling (which I refuse to call education) is almost entirely focused on thinking. In Australia of late there is a push of the ‘back to basics’ variety – the basics being reading, writing and ‘rithmatic. The basics are not [...]

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Evan on August 30th, 2009

Just a quick note about a great post. It is called How to Use Fear to Find Your Passion. Very clear and well written with practical exercises to do. Also how to distinguish the fear that tells you to get out from the fear that indicates a (scary) opportunity to grow. A really stand out [...]

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Evan on July 1st, 2008

Patricia, whose blog is Spiritual Journey of a Lightworker, did a good post on fear.  It’s called Gifts of Facing Your Fears.  In this post she points to an excellent post by Tom Volkar called Cash in on the Hidden Gold Beneath Your Fears. What is so great about both these posts is there positive [...]

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Evan on August 17th, 2007

We often don’t like to admit we are afraid of something. I guess this is because some part of us wants to believe that we are, if not invincible, at least able to handle anything that life can throw at us. To put it starkly: this is just silly. There are many things that can [...]

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