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‘To fear is to be other than our true selves.’

Fear, the worst: Gerard Guiton’s Thought for the Week

‘To fear is to be other than our true selves.’

by Gerard Guiton 29th November 2024

Fear can be a spiritual Pied Piper. It can mesmerise us, leading us away from Love, and from trusting each other. We see it at the international border and the military recruitment office, in the class system, and in the labelling of people as ‘strangers’ or ‘foreigners’ – as ‘them’.