The Shadow Angel

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear." Fear. One word. One simple word. Yet this one word has one of the most powerful meanings in existence. Fear is one of the most natural thing in human nature. "Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake." However the human race refuses to acknowledge what they fear. The fact remains that there is nothing in the world as it is that needs to be feared by us. I can understand that when we're young that there are things that will scare us, but only because we don't understand them. Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. The human people fear what they don't understand. "Fear always springs from ignorance."Whatever humans don't understand I can promise you they will either avoid it in fear or in there fear they will try to destroy that which terrifies them. Humans choose not to confront thier fears, I don't agree with that philosophy. When you grow up the way that I did you learn to decide what to fear. I myself have made the concious decision to not fear a thing. "The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." The most wise and most true words i've ever heard. Another one of my personal sayings, 'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." I, my friends, am not trying to pass myself off as either brave, nor valiant, nor simply courageous, after all,"Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it." We must learn not to aviod our fears, but learn to confront them. We must learn to drag our fears out of whatever hiding place the are dwelling, fight them, and destroy them. "To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none. To be afraid is to constantly waste a much needed energy. Through dealing with fear we can acomplishe to see the other side of fear. On the other side of our fears is what humans will search their whole lives for. We know what it is even if you don't know what it is, but the fact remains that we know what's there, hiding from us, on the other side of fear is the greatest of all human treasures. Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.