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SINKING SHIPS & ORANGE POPSICLES
FEAR is one of the strongest motivators we know. Fear can cause us to change course — detour from our pre-planned route, modify habits, lose instinct for what is wise and discard commitment to operate under a particular set of principles and values.
Fear is destructive when we allow it to take over.
Only one emotion will override fear. We call it love. Many of us don’t really “get” what it means to love in the worldly, global, fellow-man kind of way. We understand love in the romantic and familial sense. But, brotherly (worldly) love truly is much bigger. Expansive, light-filled and far stronger than fear.
To achieve the desired state of brotherly love, we must learn to drop the ego, stop the panic, and stop running away from looking at why fear causes us to hate.
Fear is what is happening across North America at the moment. We fear the ship is sinking. Those who hold wealth fear collapse, those who financially struggle fear having less. There is fear of monetary systems failing, fear of socialism, fear of dictatorship, fear of losing everything we have accumulated and fear of a virus that’s made us all sit up and pay attention.
