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Fear

“You can't see the future coming -- not the terrors, for sure, but you also can't see the wonders that are coming, the moments of light-soaked joy that await each of us.”

John Green
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"My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going,
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.

Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.

But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.

I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road,
though I may know nothing about it.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone."

Thomas Merton
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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Rainer Maria Rilke
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"Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

James Baldwin
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"[L]ove in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.

Frederick Buechner
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