There is no answer to any of these questions. It's a matter of time and timing, of seas and seasons, of breathing in and breathing out. It's a matter of balance.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

To affirm is to make firm.

..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.

Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.

Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.

And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.