| Yes. We do - we believe that our own | | | | suffering. |
| interpretation of the world is valid - that it is the | | | | Everyone has fears. Everyone. Sometimes they |
| only one, and that it is completely real. And we | | | | are hidden, covered up, disguised. They might |
| can always find people that will agree with us. | | | | seem minor. Perhaps they are unrecognized. But |
| Yet all of us share in the Greater Reality of an | | | | fear is built into human experience. Look for it. It |
| abiding presence of Love and Unconditional | | | | needs to be reckoned with because fear naturally |
| Compassion. And many have discovered a way | | | | wants to move into self-protection, which creates |
| to live in this awareness. | | | | opposition with self-defeating attitudes and |
| How does one examine a lived and believed | | | | behaviors, which leads to alienation and all forms |
| reality? Fear and self-defense, long ago imprinted, | | | | of justifications. |
| have formed logical strategies, plans and | | | | The system of self-defense, learned and |
| conclusions, making it difficult to explore the origin | | | | re-learned, multiplied and re-multiplied, becomes |
| of our long established, set-in-place world view. It | | | | the human condition - a system of fear and |
| is so very hard to grasp the need to control our | | | | desire that creates separation and conflict, as it |
| life, established very early on, that keeps shaping | | | | flows through daily experience. |
| and distorting our power to interpret. | | | | And still, always present is the Reality that all of |
| And so we find ourselves struggling, searching and | | | | us rest in the embrace of Unity and Wholeness. |