Sometimes, the greatest safety can be found in taking the right risk. Whether it be an individual, a community or a country, when faced with tragedy or fearful uncertainty, we either become bigger and enter life more fully, or else we accept a diminished life and resign ourselves to a smaller way of being. Michael Meade
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We all have a choice to make from time to time. Do we stand up and fight for our beliefs? Do we stand up and fight for what is right? If we choose the latter, the safety of a smaller way of being, we will simply put a band aid on a wound. We will stop the bleeding but the wound itself will fester and become a scar that never heals. And, as long as we have a scar, we fear what might happen if we were to fall again.

We fear falling. And as such, we live our lives with fear as the only companion. You can see this in communities all over the world where fear has become the meaning of life.

Fear has become our driving force and our way of life is determined by what we think fear can do to us.

Source: The Genius Myth

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