Hi everybody, Sam here, and this is episode 127 of the VictorPrep Vocab Podcast, and I'm

going to start today with a quote from a writer called James Hollis, and I have quoted

him before quite a long time ago, and this is a different quote from the same book, and

the book is what matters most, and I would call this a self-help book, because I guess

it fits sort of, but really, it's something much more profound than that, because to me,

James Hollis seems more like a successor to someone like Carl Jung, than to someone like

Tony Robbins, no offense to Tony Robbins, right? I think he can be good, but what matters

most is sort of a philosophical look at our lives, how we can find out who we are, what

really matters, how can we find a deeper happiness, how can we be true to ourselves, and how

do we find a meaning in a modern world which sometimes just seems so shallow? So the

quote I picked out today is around fear, and how fear can affect our lives, and prevent

us from living a richer, fuller life, and also how fear restricts our ability to become

the best version of ourselves. So yes, this quote is from James Hollis, and from the

book, what matters most. Learning that fear governs our lives, and the

many coping strategies we have evolved to manage it, may be an unpleasant discovery, but it

is the beginning of liberation. All it takes to recover the integrity of our journey is

to recognize that fear is the enemy, not others, not history, but plain old fear, our

fears. As Jung observed, the spirit of evil is negation of the life force by fear. Only

boldness can deliver us from fear, and if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life

is violated. So there you have it, fear is the enemy, life is not your enemy, the other

is not your enemy, fear is the enemy, and fear has crowded you into a diminished corridor

of that vast mention of possibility that the gods provide us. Ask yourself of every dilemma,

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