Live Without Fear

Welcome, children. Today, we're going to talk about fear.

Specifically, we're going to talk about the differences between you, the afraid, and those that long ago shed their fear the way a snake sheds skin and sharks shed teeth.

You see, walking amongst us are a select few, the fearless. The Enlightened. Those who have hit rock-bottom and found themselves whole. They looked around and realized that once you have nothing left to lose, you have nothing left to fear.

Again, from another angle: those who have everything live in fear. Those who have nothing live in peace, without fear. It is the very idea of nothing that we fear, and fear drives us to flee from that perilous-sounding position of "rock bottom", that place in which dwell madmen and zealots lurk like monsters.

What we fail to realize is "rock bottom" is also the place of meditation for gunslingers and samurai.

Jesus, the one they called The Christ, realized this. That is why he said "sell all you own and follow me." He was challenging his followers to throw themselves to that place of enlightenment, to embrace "rock bottom" and live without fear.

Give up your fear. Before we embrace what it is to have nothing, that is exactly what we will have: nothing.

You have to give up.

You have to give up.