Love and fear...

From my own experiences...
I've never known or seen a love that was strong enough to overcome someone else's deep existential fears.
But rather, the sense of isolation experienced by one who is lost in fear is overcome when that individual...
Undertakes the discomforting process of searching deep within to discover essential qualities of self which are innately loveable...
And learns to touch-in on that part of the self with honor, compassion, and love.
It is the overcoming of one's existential fears which allows the individual to experience and to participate in the love that already exists and is there waiting.

Quotes from Joseph Campbell

• Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

• We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

• Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

• The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

• Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

• One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

• We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.