Fear is a powerful controller; he paralyzes, overcomes, and berates.
Fear does not exist in the now. He has to invent a pretend time to inhabit and rule. He takes the only real time, the present, and splits it into two time zones. One half he calls the past, and the other, the future. Fear governs the future as anxiety, and the past as guilt. Therefore Fear must be overcome in the present. So, sure we can avoid our most vicious enemies; but only in the present, when it is right in our face, can we conquer our personal enemies, whether they be weakness or trial. If I think "Oh that time was awful, but next time I'll do better," I am giving Fear the chance to take control. I must ask myself each moment what I want, which emotion I want to let through (lust or love, anger or control), I have to recognize if I am attempting to deny reality. We cannot "try" to be in the present, we are already present. Stop fantasizing you are elsewhere, stop trying to become present; you are already there. Nothing can kidnap you from the present, not even yourself. Discover your target in the present and just BE. That is the strongest you.
Britter OUT.
