Sublime

As humans we still tend to process fear in a very animalistic, primitive way. We need to manage our internal operating system by understanding the concept of feral fear. During any stressful situation a cocktail of stress hormones is released into the body to bring about well-orchestrated physiological changes, from our hearts beating faster to our

Most of us live out lives that we’ve unconsciously inherited, and we’re mimicking patterns of living that have been passed on to us by family, school, religion, government, economic institutions, and the media. We have lost touch with the rich, subjective life of being in the human body, upon which our entire experience is based. The body, the soma

VIKTOR E. FRANKL was PROFESSOR OF NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY at the University of Vienna and, for 25 years, head of the Vienna Neurological Policlinic. The Logotherapy/Existential Analysis founded by him is also known as the Third Viennese Direction of Psychotherapy. He held visiting professorships at Harvard University, Stanford, Dallas and Pittsbur

he would sit down each day to write himself notes about restraint, compassion and humility. He used stoicism to create an empire.

Studying Zen has taught me to simplify; to simplify yields a richer result. The rock climber becomes a master when he can leave his big wall gear at the base, when he so perfects his skill that he can climb the wall free, relying only on his skill and the features of the rock.

The bottleneck of fear isn’t caused by the conditioning, but by the decision about myself I have reached based on that conditioning.