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The Fear That Opened the Way

“Before I ever loved water, I feared it.”

A four-year-old clings to her mother at the edge of a pool in Cypress, California.

Water teaches · p. 34

Fear is not the opposite of healing ~ it is often the doorway to it. The water has been waiting patiently on the other side of every fear you have ever carried.

Reflection · p. 35
  1. What fear have you been holding so tightly that your hands have forgotten what it feels like to open?
  2. What might the water be waiting to show you on the other side of it?
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Words to carry · from this passage

  1. Stay awake. Something here belongs to you.

    p. 27

  2. Lift your legs. The water will hold you.

    p. 28

  3. Fear is not the enemy of the water. Fear is the doorway.

    p. 32

  4. Fear showed me where I needed to be held.

    p. 33

  5. Fear is not the opposite of healing ~ it is often the doorway to it.

    p. 34

  6. You were always going to end up here.

    p. 31

  7. The water has been waiting patiently on the other side of every fear you have ever carried.

    p. 34

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This teaching closes Passage One of The Well Being of Water: Surrender to Self, a lyric memoir in thirteen passages by Amal Lana.

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