So often man says that life is difficult, and painful; that life is an
ordeal, confusing and puzzling, that there is no meaning to it. In this
attitude and belief he pretends that he and life were two separate factors.
They are not. Whatever life is for you, that you are yourself. Whatever
your life appears to you is an exact facsimile of how you experience
yourself. Your personal life, as it manifests for you, is a conglomeration
of all your attitudes and traits. It is the greatest error possible, and one
of the most fundamental ones, to believe that you are one thing and the life
you are put into is another. This is not so. Whenever these words I am
uttering now will have an inner meaning and reality for you, you will indeed
have reached a stage of development when you no longer have to fear, when you
are no longer a helpless straw in the wind. As long as you separate what
your life is for you and what you are, you are not only in illusion, but,
because of it, you are in fear and in disharmony.

Whatever confidence you have in yourself, in your capacities and potentials,
the very same confidence you will have in life. The joy that exists in your
heart, and your ability to experience that joy, will be your life. As you
experience the ability you have to cope with setbacks and disappointments, to
relinquish your will if need be, the possibility that life will frighten you
will decease. Once you examine yourself and your life from this point of
view, you will have taken a further step towards the unification and
integration that is your goal.


You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you
really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think
you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt

"The rest of those who have gone before us cannot steady the unrest of those
to follow"

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