"When I reflect deeply on my life and what I really want, it is not to be afraid.
When I am afraid, I am miserable. I play it safe. I restrict myself. I hide the talent of me in the ground. I am not deeply alive - the depths of me are not being expressed.
When I am afraid, a tiny part of me holds captive most of me, which rebels against the tyranny of the minority.
When I am afraid I am a house divided against itself.
So, more than anything else, I want to be delivered from fear, for fear is alien to my own best interest.
Or, to put it positively, I want to give myself generously, magnanimously, freely - out of love. I want to be able to take risks - to express myself, to welcome and embrace the future.
I want to see what it is to be most deeply me."
Elisabeth O'Connor, quoting Gordon Crosby, in Cry Pain, Cry Hope.
