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Looking at ourselves and our world, we see both aggression and passivity, and both can be traced to fear. What do we fear? Pain and the infinite forms that pain can take: Physical pain from illness, accidents, aging, childbirth and violence. Emotional pain from being squelched, abandoned or shamed. Our own pain AND the pain of others, including other animals and maybe even the plant life going through drought and death. Pain is an epidemic in our world, and that epidemic then causes another epidemic, fear: fear of existence, fear of what could happen, fear of what is happening, fear of what co
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