Fear is the short road to death and this world, Changed by the flux of decay: Survival is the exception for weary men. From the new book The Waning

Ellen Mae Franklin
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Fear is the short road to death and this world; it is the mind’s short circuit. What we call fear is the mind’s way of saying, “What I see is threatening.” Fear of change, fear of death, fear of losing love, fear of success, fear of failure…fear is basically our mind’s way of warning us about what will likely hurt us in some way.

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