F05 · Fear and Avoidance
Fear of uncertainty and the unknown
Clinging to familiar misery rather than stepping into uncharted territory.
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“Not all who hesitate are lost.”
“For practical life at any rate, the CHANCE of salvation is enough. No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference ... between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.”
“What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, in the fulfillment or the fiasco. There’s always the possibility of a fiasco. But there’s also the possibility of bliss.”
“By not venturing, it is so dreadfully easy to lose that which it would be difficult to lose in even the most venturesome venture ... For if I have ventured amiss - very well, then life helps me by its punishment. But if I have not ventured at all - who then helps me?”
“Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.”