Fear, fear, what is fear?
How much can be learned through identifying anyone’s greatest fears. Fear, it is where all power is lost — fear, it is where the heart is most at risk of being forgotten. Fear is the venom, the poison — fear, it is the fork in the road, fear, it is where we choose to run or maintain its gaze, for when we win this unholy staring contest, its yields are untold riches, oh yes, the winner truly does take all — so choose, choose: will you take all, or will you lose it all?
I know no power that doesn’t involve the facing of one’s deepest fears. I know of no freedom that doesn’t involve the facing of one’s deepest fears. I know of know real truth that does not involve liberation from fear. Fear, fear — what are you but the guardian of the threshold? What are you but the keeper of the treasure, the dragon encircling gold? To conquer fear is to conquer oneself and oneself only —
Nothing makes me feel more alive than to do things that scare me, nothing makes me feel more alive than to activate that system designed to escape death.
I can tell you this, this immutable truth, there is no way around what I am about to say — no gymnastics of the mind that can dodge this reality, and that reality is this:
A life lived obeying fear, that system ingrained in us to escape death, is how one comes to live a life that is death, it is to become one of the walking dead.
You’ll never know any greater joy, you’ll never know any greater exhilaration, never know any greater bliss, nor greater fulfillment, than to overcome your fear–
Yes, a life lived facing fear is a life truly lived.
THE CLOSET MYSTIC 