Fearless

• It’s not money or circumstance of time. It’s fear. Fear is all that’s in your way.
• All form changes. All pain comes from fear of that.
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
• It’s all perception. Every feeling in life is! Perceive something one way and you are terrified. Perceive it another way, and you are happy. You yourself get to write the perception. Always in life, you get to compose the song.
• All sad things can be beautiful when the mind is right.
• Solutions are one of the greatest joys of the fearless life. And all solutions have problems. You can’t have a solution without a problem, and a life without solutions is flat and boring.
• Problems: When taken on, they are life-changing gifts. Once we can do the mind shift (from paranoid mode to creative mode) necessary to see them for what they are, all problems become advanced seminars in What I Now Need to Learn to Advance in  this Spiritual Journey Up the Ladder of Consciousness to Some Real Fun and Good Mischief and a condition we’ve all heard described as fearless.
• Time sweet time will remain infinite for you, always abundant, yet always just this moment right now.
• So the secret to a fearless relationship with time is for me to slow down and focus. Focus fully on the one thing, the only thing.
• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
• Make each day your masterpiece.
• What day can you recall recently that you would call a masterpiece?
• What do you want to create? What’s missing is the want to.
• Every time you veer off course it’s because you’re reacting and not creating.
• So what are you thinking that makes you so afraid? (Because it’s always what you’re thinking. It’s never the situation itself.)
• Thoughts create fear. Thoughts create feelings. Yet most people don’t experience it that way. Most people experience feelings being created by external events, and other people.
• Money must now be about nothing but paper received for creativity and service.
• From now on, no more bad news. All news is either neutral or good.
• We only fear what we don’t understand.
• You could take back your mind and rise above conditioning and create a positive, fearless career in the face of negative mobs of people who are begging you to join them as victims of circumstance.
• Worry is a misuse of your imagination.
• Focus is water from the hose.
• Focusing on what you want to grow is the best use of you infinite mind. And if focus is water, then service is sunshine on your garden.
• That’s the thing about the things we fear. It’s always the idea of them. Therefor they are always experienced worse in our heads than out there in the world.
• There is no real fear out there in the world it turns out. It is all in the mind.
• Fearless has you dancing with the situation instead of fighting against it.
• You can create anytime, anywhere. Just start bringing beauty into existence that wasn’t there before.
• When you are not idle, the world will find you without a lot of promotion on your part.
• Fearless: it’s the dropping of personality. It replaces it with the fierce thrill of doing what ought to be done. Fearless isn’t a personal quality. It’s not a trait inside any single person. It’s as much there for you as it is for that brave person you’ve always admired.
• Fear is misunderstood excitement.
• We worry about longevity and hope for eternity while not knowing what to do with ourselves in the next hour.
• Fearless isn’t a quality… it’s an approach.
• So rather than feeling the fear and doing it anyway – how about feeling the fear and looking for the thought that causes it?
• Life focused on what you’re going to get is always less abundant than life focused on what you can give.
• Looking back on your life you’ll notice that “bad news” wasn’t always such bad news.
• Losing one thing creates a vacuum for something better to fill in.
• A fearless life will never depend on the news that comes in today. A fearless life will depend on the gentle spirit already inside you… the one that you’re relaxing into right now.
• Addiction offers a simulation of conscious contact with a higher power. But the problem is that it is a simulation, not the real thing. Like getting in a flight simulator and trying to fly it somewhere. (Imitation)
• What would you do if you would not possibly fail? If failure were not even a possibility, what would you do with your life right now?
• Fear of failure is the culprit that is stopping us from having a fearless, adventurous life.
• People who are not failures are people who have never gone too far. It’s a tectonic shift to think the best of us fail and the worst of us have never failed at anything.
• It’s the gap between what is, and what we think would be better. You’;; find the source of fear in this gap.
• Loose the fear of where you are and you are more free than ever to go to where you might have been.
• What you are seeking is seeking you.
• Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
• So if all fear is in the future, then we can simply take our action out of the future. We can merely come back home. Bring ourselves into the present moment.
• The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
• That’s a true shift, to shift from the outer discovery to the inner. To have new eyes.
• The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
• The mind settles down and begins to reorder itself into a state of harmony and sparkling grace. True power begins to gather. Clarity rings like a crystal glass tapped by a finger. A subtle shift occurs. Fear exits the system.
• All our fears are optical illusions.
• Sometimes the secret of life comes down to bold, creative moves, in the mind and in the world.
• Do not follow the path, go where there is no path to begin the trail.
• A mind that is open will shift.

Source: Fearless by Steve Chandler