Each of us wants to live a fulfilled life. We come out of the womb generally expecting to do so. But somewhere along the way, usually starting in childhood, we surrender our goal bit-by-bit to the dictates of fear and anxiety. It may creep up on us slowly, but the sense of “Possibility” where we can spread “wide our narrow Hands / To gather Paradise”, as Emily Dickinson so beautifully described, seems to get progressively buried over the course of our lifetimes. We are, as a culture, profoundly mired in the ways of fear; our collective consciousness seems to have lost its soul.
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