Many years ago I was walking down the street thinking about something that had been bothering me when a thought suddenly exploded into my headed. It was a turning point in my life, though I still continued to wrestle with my problems and myself for many years afterward. It is one thing to understand something, another entirely to embody it fully and then apply it in a practical manner.
My personal revelation can be summed up in two brief sentences. Fear was the foundational basis of all my dysfunction. And my fear often came disguised as anything, everything, but fear. Simple enough to comprehend when seated in front of the computer reading this, much more difficult when engulfed within fear and all its various permutations and manifestations.
The following essay by Unlawful Justice not only speaks about fear, but how to work through our fear so we may learn and grow from our experienced fear.