Susan Jeffers wrote a best-selling book Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway. Brilliant as it is, there is another view: Feel the Flow and Do it Anyway. There is Flow everywhere - in fact everything is flowing.
We could say there is nothing but Flow. But if that is so how come it doesn't feel that way? Because we let ourselves get in the way. You can notice yourself getting in the way when you are thinking about ... yourself.
A worry, for example, is usually a worry about yourself - "Will I keep my job?" "What will happen to me?" "What will they think of me?" But getting out of the way isn't so easy especially if, like me, you spent decades getting in the way. And resisting interference usually stimulates more interference.
This leads to the paradox of the self: the more you know you are nothing, the more you can connect with everything. And the more you feel you are something - especially something special - the more you disconnect. A lilttle qualification: the life force that is in you is absolutely amazing. It is, however, the same life force that is in everything else. It is life in all its abundance.
I spent years thinking "I am", a sentiment which is qualified by the bigger truth "We are", which is also part of a bigger truth "Life is". Even so, these words may not convey the majesty, for from the perspective of "Life is", the sentiment that "I am" is, well, puny.
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