“When you begin to recognize that the joy of Heart is indestructible—that it cannot be taken away, that it propagates itself, that it catches on to something else and then something else and so forth, your joy can be present with the other emotions. In fact, joy will destroy fear.
“Your joy will ignite the coldness of other people. It is the person living in fear that is the one who is suffering, like they are hiding in a hole. Life is now, and it’s not worth waiting for someone or something to come to straighten things out.
“There is such value in connecting and having a deeper, richer sense of yourself. It’s time to come out and to bring your courage with you. Only the mind can fear this expression. You will find that when you express yourself with that clear sense, others will respond.
“I could go down the path of explaining how it touches and moves people and spreads, but you must know, you can’t wait and spend your life hiding from these things in the shadow of fear. For your own self, it is time to face that fear of expression now!”
Excerpted from Heard Around the Fire, page 11