Hence, "we have nothing to fear but fear itself". Franklin D Roosevelt got that one right.
On 16 March 2014 06:48, Chris de Morsella <cdemorse...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > >> You know I love the french (a bit cynical) poem: > > 'man had the good, > but he sought the best, > he found the bad, > and kept it, > by fear of the worst.' > > Kind regards, > > Bruno > > Nice... I mean bad :) > Fear becomes, within the hidden unexamined recesses of mind, a self-driving > psychological mechanism, where our fear of something becomes the thing we > fear and begins to take over more and more of the mind -- if not faced that > is. > Facing one's own primal visceral fears is the very hardest thing for a > person to ever do -- IMO -- the mind will try any trick and throw up its > best rationalizations why the fear should remain buried within and not be > faced. To face one's fears is a painful terrifying process, but is also the > only means of escaping the fate of being driven by them. > A mind can never awaken as long as it remains primarily driven by its > unconscious (preconscious maybe is a better word) zombie processes. Often, > even just recognizing that these exist within us is the hardest part. Once > recognized, for being what they are, at least the mind becomes aware of > them > and can begin to act upon that awareness and in a more self-aware manner. > Chris > > > > > > > > > Kim > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Everything List" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
