[INDENT]Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. :: Helen Keller
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*nichole
I so admire Helen Keller. What an indomitable spirit.
Thanks for sharing Nichole.
You are welcome and I glad you connected with this too. I resist commenting on most of the poems and songs here with the hope that people will have their own experience of them; invited out by the words and sentiments of the author and not by being imprinted by my experience. I know sharing now risks that, but I would like some of the member’s thoughts on this too, as I am in practice with this.
I personally work with the yamas and niyamas daily. And I often think that the 10 Commandments would have been offered to me as a child with the subtleties that the yamas and niyamas are offered, I may have seen the countless opportunities in them. Certainly those 10 did make a deep impression on my because I evaluate all that has followed relational to them.
This quote of Keller’s speaks to me [I]raga[/I] and[I] devasha[/I]: to attachments and aversions. It speaks to me of[I] satya[/I] (truth) as well. The truth that most of the security and control in our lives is an illusion. True security is exceedingly rare and exceedingly limited, even with our plotting, strategizing and the many “deals” we’ve made with life and with others. Feeling the truth of this, or being open to [I]attempting[/I] to feel the truth of this, can send a person into of a spin: vacillating between attaching ourselves, grasping again at illusionary “comforts” and repelling those thoughts and feelings that threaten our constructed illusion of security. It can be quite an adventure and personally, I need to rest from this practice on occasion. 
This is indeed a practice for me and one that needs to be built upon, one step at a time.
*nichole
Dear Nichole,
Thank you for sharing your ever delightful quotes. This one especially is compelling.
It sounds like you are doing great and have a firm devotion and intention :). That’s beautiful!
About being fearless and the like:
In my experience the most powerful, uncontrived, truthful and direct way to being fully open and exposed, is through clarity…
Because we can only ‘try’ so much to be a certain way without seeing things clearly for what they are. It seems to me that it is only through true understanding and therefore clarity, through seeing things as they truly are in relation to everything else, that we can naturally be without fear completely. All trying, eventually, will fail or not reach this level of completion since clarity about what we truly are might be missing.
For example: I could try right now with my mind and heart to be open, and that would certainly work to some degree, but it is only when I see clearly that in reality there is no separate ‘me’ to protect and withdraw, that I can be fully open and fearless.
So personally I have stopped trying to be a certain way since I got tired of it and because I am impatient when it comes to result. So I was always very intense in my ‘trying to be according to spiritual qualities,’ but the ultimate result never came, or not quickly enough anyway haha. Now I just allow my fear also to be there and whatever periods of non-clarity and insecurity I might be having, I leave it be totally. Often from that again rises the freedom and clarity from the sense of ‘me’ and thus naturally, I find all spiritually described qualities to be naturally present since I am That in which they arise :).
Thanks for sharing your personal story. I wish you all the best.
Love,
B.
even i agree to it…
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
…but we can never know how “thrilled” a thrill-seeker is at the moment of impact.
And what impact are you speaking of?
[QUOTE=Nichole;24484][INDENT][INDENT][SIZE=3]Security is mostly a superstition. [/QUOTE] People like Security because they don’t want to change. This is against Evolution. :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=Nichole;24484][INDENT]Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. :: Helen Keller
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no risk no gain 
[QUOTE=Nichole;24484][INDENT]Security is mostly a superstition. . :: Helen Keller
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Osho says a lot about security and its unreality…