The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness

So with this person who is scaring us or insulting us, do we retaliate as we have one hundred thousand times before, or do we start to get smart and finally hold our seat?

So whenever we wander off, we gently encourage ourselves to ‘stay’ and settle down. Are we experiencing restlessness? Stay! Discursive mind? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What’s for lunch? Stay! What am I doing here? Stay! I can’t stand this another minute! Stay!

Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.

How is it that these circumstances have the power to propel me like a Ping-Pong ball from hope to fear, from happiness to misery?’

What do I do when I feel anxious and depressed, bored or lonely?

When we find ourselves captured by aggression, we can remember this: there is no basis for striking out or for repressing.

Do I prefer retreating into the beauty of nature or into the delicious world provided by a really good book?

Without the office bully, how could we ever get the chance to know the energy of anger so intimately that it loses its destructive power?

Beliefs and ideals have become just another way to put up walls. The third