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The Fear That Opened the Way
“Before I ever loved water, I feared it.”
A four-year-old clings to her mother at the edge of a pool in Cypress, California.
Water teaches
Fear is not the opposite of healing ~ it is often the doorway to it. The water has been waiting patiently on the other side of every fear you have ever carried.
Reflection
- What fear have you been holding so tightly that your hands have forgotten what it feels like to open?
- What might the water be waiting to show you on the other side of it?
This teaching closes Passage One of Surrender to Self, a lyric memoir in thirteen passages by Amal Lana.