Often we do not realize how our fears are driving our existence. We have seen a financial crisis in our childhood and we make earning more and more money our life goal. We experience death in our childhood and we become finicky about death. We experience crises in certain close relationships and we become very possessive about the relationships. We experienced insult and disrespect from society and we want to control the very same society by reaching powerful positions. However, the fact of the matter remains that we remain as hollow as we were because a life lived with fear at its center can never be fulfilling.
There are two movements of life and we need to examine these movements to understand what life is. The first movement is fear and the other is love. While fear disconnects us from the rest and makes us feel insecure, love connects us to everybody. A fearful person will seek security and depending upon his experiences, he may seek security in money, power, relationships, or knowledge. However, since the root of fear is never addressed, fear remains the same. The more we accumulate wealth and more the fear of losing that, the more we gather powers and weaker we feel before the ones more powerful than us, the more we become dependent on relationships, and the more we have a fear of losing them, the more we gain knowledge and the greater is FOMO.
The problem lies at the core of our existence. Since we are disconnected from our true selves, we are seeking some security in money, power, relationships, and knowledge. We fail to realize that life is a well-integrated system, and isolation can never make us feel secure. We inhale the air exhaled by other beings. We eat food and the biome within the body helps the digestion of that food. We are dependent upon plants and trees for our food and forests for oxygen. There is a very strong connection among all the beings in this world. Fear isolates us from this grand system while love makes us participate in the grand play of nature. The real security comes when we start participating in the grand design of nature and experience that every element of nature is playing its role so beautifully. Nature takes care of everything. The more we dance to the tune of nature the more we appreciate its fairness. In fact, the more we appreciate that there is no difference between the inner and the outer world. We love everybody around us because it is the same nature or divine that has taken different forms to manifest.
When we love, we become aware, and the more we become aware, the more we love. Love takes away all insecurities from within. We realize that nature is a big family where everyone takes care of everyone else in one or the other form. As we come out of fear-driven isolation and connect to love, we can clearly see the contribution of so many people and other elements of nature in shaping our lives. We develop gratitude and that gives us the confidence to live without fear. That also makes us feel responsible for the others. That fills us with love and compassion and we feel like playing our role to the best of our abilities. With awareness evaporates fear and we are filled with love and compassion. That changes our entire outlook towards life. The more we become aware of the grad design of nature and greater the role assigned by nature to us to perform in this world. That is the reason why all the great people in this world, be they scientists, poets, musicians, or painters were all enlightened people and were aware of the forces of nature. A fearful person, on the other hand, becomes narrow and bitter and closer and closer as life progresses.
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