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January 14, 2014

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ~ Eric Hoffer

I wasn't brought up in any particular religion or spiritual tradition, and I believe this was an advantage in a certain way. I have always felt free to explore possibilities, without being too much encumbered by those terrible burdens of dogmatically informed fear and guilt that have so badly affected many people. ~ Annie Lennox

March 24, 2012

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day. ~ Marcus Valerius Martial

January 04, 2012

I no longer have the fear of being alone. Its cool to find out that you don't need a boyfriend to be happy. ~ Drew Barrymore

November 15, 2011

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ~ Bertrand Russell

September 11, 2011

The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific/technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years. That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defense against the dangerous new knowledge. When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. Unfortunately, you cannot reason with them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity. ~ G Gaia

August 22, 2011

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. ~ Jack Layton

July 28, 2011

People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer. ~ Andrew Smith

July 02, 2011

Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
~ Swedish proverb

June 13, 2011

I Am Me

In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically me because I alone chose it.

I own everything about me; my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions,whether they be to others or to myself.

I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears.

I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me.

By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know.

But as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find out more about me.

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me.

If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded.

I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me.

I own me, and therefore I can engineer me. I am me and I am OK.

~ Virginia Satir