Christopher Hansard:[ Fear]

The only real freedom is freedom from fear

fear comes to us in many disguises

seeking to seduce us into

the identity of anxiety, pain and suffering

as anger glues us to the repetition of unhappiness

so fear makes our world small

and so our minds shrink

we lose the capacity for thinking

for gaining inspiration

for rationality

for love

and for the tastes of consciousness

and the challenges of living

the only freedom is the freedom from fear

and when that freedom comes as light in our clouded states of being

the nature of suffering is understood

and falls away, discarded as an old skin

we, each of us, become shrouded in the mystery of transcendental beauty

the interaction of consciousness with form, body, mind and soul