Alan CohenScared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.
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The more you are scared of something, the more it will make you want to succeed at it. It’s the same with things that scare us. If something scares us, we try hard to overcome it. It can be something that is scary about ourselves, or others, or even fate itself. When we are scared of something, we are trying to change it.
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