Do the Thing You Fear

Do the Thing You Fear

Seldom do we do the thing we fear,
so we seldom discover whether or not our projection
of disaster was accurate or not.

In fact, when we DON'T do the thing we are afraid of, we breathe a sigh of relief as though it actually would have taken place. "That was a close one!" we say, even though we never actually got close to anything but a string of our own negative thoughts...

Peter McWilliams