World View Perspective: Freedom from fear
When fear settles into any part of us at any age and stage in our lives, it is useful to understand it, feel it and consider why it is there. It is also useful to fish it out and begin each day with a new and renewed sense of self. To move through life with a certain degree of caution is wise but to carry forward with us a very old, outmoded, unnecessary amount of stagnant fear is to rob ourselves of a current 'now' presence. We cherish our lives, our existence, our connection to other people and the people we love. So we fear the loss of what we know to be that. Yet, in light of ongoing gratitude, a state of mind we can always welcome in, we can be present with all we love all the time, despite any and all fears that arise within us about the loss of what we cherish. Let go of all we fear to lose, as Yoda said in Star Wars. It is through our attachments that we experience a great deal of fear! We fear to lose what we have that fulfills us and makes u...