Fear and Joy

I have been living by a motto for quite some time now. "My spiritual path is where fear and joy collide". There are many things in life where fear serves a valuable purpose. Such as, to move away from speeding cars in a busy street. However, there are also many ways in which fear holds us back from experiences that actually contain our highest joy. We are held back by these fears because of limiting beliefs and traumas. We can understand which fears are essential to lean into when we see our highest joy in that same experience (or the outcome of that experience).