Fear

“Fear creates violence.
If we are to begin to address these fears, we need to know the difference between the fears that keep us alive and the fears that keep us from living.
The first kind of fear is instinctual and built in us for survival. The second kind of fear is fear of the unfamiliar. The unfamiliar can become an abundant place for our exploration once we realize this fear lives only in our imagination. It is only our minds that have created the turmoil in our gut and kept us hostage to the possibility of our own lives.”
-The Yamas & Niyamas by Deborah Adele

To create a life and a world free of violence we must endeavor to take the steps forward. But to do this we must find our own courage.