Sublime

David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.

All discrimination comes from the ego’s sense of importance, where it believes its people are more important or better or more creative or more socially acceptable than some other people.

it’s the process of becoming an invisible person.

If I set your house on fire, you would not sit amidst the inferno and ask me what to do. You would surrender to your instincts and do anything and everything to save yourself.

This is precisely what the weak do everywhere. Through bitter experience they have learned how to exercise extreme care, how to behave so as to reduce the threat of immediate danger from their environment. Fear thus becomes a form of life assurance, making possible the continuation of physical existence with a minimum of active violence.

No One Is an Island