They say we fear the unknown. What is the ultimate unknown to the Patriarchy? It is a vibrant creative sexually free woman. Their fear constructs systems of oppression. In order that they may transfer the fear unto woman, and those few enlightened men who delight in women. Those guys are dangerous, they who go to woman with trust and respect that though she be another species, she is still necessary for a man to have deepest knowledge of, if he is to be a free man. Free of fear .

Fear is manufactured by small cramped souls. Afraid to venture out of what their tradition teaches them is some higher ethical code of behavior. They have fervor, these fearmongers. I personally fear them, I guess. Not intellectually or spiritually, but they will nab you on your behavior sometimes if it is too effusively free. Freedom is paid for, they say. You gotta pay. Pay up.

All nonsense, this fear campaign. An illusion. Yet: a very real one. For: all is illusion in the temporal arena of history. … some people spend their lives trying to WAKE UP from the collective dream, and this is admirable, but it is hard and dangerous work. Sleepers wish to remain asleep, dreaming up systems of rest and stagnation.

Blake:

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''In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of FEAR,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.''


 To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
 Bertrand Russell,

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FEAR of fear is what I fear.

[r] "open people get hurt." it is the price of the openness. heard that from one of my many self-help books or tapes, can't begin to remember which one. sigh. another one from 12 step orbit: F-E-A-R = False Evidence Appearing Real OR Face Everything And Recover!

two major emotions fear and love. all other feelings spring from them. trying to be on the love channel as opposed to the fear one takes courage and hope. expansion not contraction. best, libby

"I failed, therefore, I should not teach or preach anything to anyone anymore."

And yet it is only from failure that we learn, so we become our own teachers in the act of failing. If you never try anything, you may never fail, but you will also never succeed. Failing is not forever, it is not a state of being, but instead the realization that one thing that you have tried did not succeed. What was it about that one thing that prevented success? If you try another time, would you do it differently? After all, you have neither succeeded nor failed in that attempt. You are, after all, still alive.