Every now and again it is good to read a book like The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön. The greatest gift that Buddhism gives the world is the ability, through discipline and work, of seeing your life clearly. It helps us to remove the road blocks, clutter and walls that we create for ourselves and that hide our true inner (and outer) working.
This book helps guide and train you to sit, very literally, with the feelings that scare you and not fight them. This is very difficult to do. We want to hide our fear, go around it, fix it, be distracted from it... anything but face it. This books invites us to do that. And not only that, but to sit and accept it just as we do the joys and pleasures of our lives. Try it. This is one of the most difficult things to do.
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