Breaking free, part 2
September 1, 2009 by dendominguez
The blog entry below, which I wrote & originally published 12/27/08, reminded me of two people recently.
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The only real prison is fear, & the only real freedom is freedom from fear. - Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize recipient & Burmese activist
When we hear the word prison, the image that comes to mind is a small, windowless, austere room with bars. But more often than not, the prison we find ourselves in is that we create in our own minds. We allow ourselves to be imprisoned by our fears:
- our fear of the past
- our fear of the future
- our fear of letting go
- our fear of being alone
- our fear of failure
- our fear of success
- our fear based on our insecurities, of not being good enough, smart enough or pretty enough
- our fear of growing old
- our fear of the unknown
- our fear of what other people will say or think about us
Whatever it is, if we are honest with ourselves, at one point or another in our lives, we’ve allowed our fears to limit us and imprison us.
May 2009 be the year when we face and stare down our fears, and break free from the self-imposed prisons we’ve created.
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