Fear eats the soul

I used to buy books to get rid of my fears.

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But book publishers aren't in the business of eliminating it.

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They're in the business of selling books, not truth.

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They know people will gladly pay to be reassured that they can, common sense aside, live with fear but still be happy.

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Learning to live with fear is a much more marketable solution than eliminating the poison making you sick altogether.

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Fear is living within an overactive nervous system.

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Happiness rests on our ability to detect the source of fear and disengage from it.

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It starts with broadening your definition of it.

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Observe, dissect, and detect macro patterns.

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Watch your motivations.

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Then find the motivations beneath the motivation.

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Let go of your assumptions and approach it from the other direction.

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Not from within but from without, not from the micro but from the macro.

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Who you are is what’s in the way.

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