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“Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.”
“Running is driven by panic. Destination is driven by thought. And while its terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesnt replace the fact that Im constantly doing t...”
“To pretend is to say that Im willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and Im unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to preten...”
“Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking muck across the floor of fact.”
“We will understand the depth of our vision when at some point we are finally faced with the price we must pay to achieve it. And when the price comes calling, most visions end up falling.”
“Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?”
“We can certainly run from a lot of things. But when we eventually pull up exhausted and entirely out of breath, we are rather shocked to discover that we havent been able to create any distance bet...”
“I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my gra...”
“If theres any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, its that Im on my feet. Now all Ive got to do is alter my direction.”
“Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.”
“Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running from something. Fear harnessed compels us to run to something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles.”
“My soul is utterly frantic for that single place of perfect refuge from which I can clearly see the winds rip and hear the tempest tear, yet despite the ferocity of the tumult I rest in such a subl...”
“Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.”
“The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.”
“What would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my script in some tediously exacting manner? I must confess that I am less likely to believe that its a matter of som...”
“If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible.”
“Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.”
“We think that boxes take everything thats bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.”
“Self-preservation is to hunker down in the suffocating confines of this infinitesimally tiny existence that I define as me, instead of letting me run through the infinitely massive expanse of every...”
“I am amazed that without any hesitation whatsoever I can completely believe myself to be on a grand journey of massive vistas and bold ascents, only to find that they are nothing more than a figmen...”
