Fear is often a significant inhibitor, preventing us from engaging in enterprising activities that may be necessary to fulfill our potentials and do justice to our God-given talents. Excessive fear can render a person feckless and spineless, incapable of standing up for their values, individuality, self-respect, or spirituality. Dominance by fear can reduce a precious and potent spiritual being, who is a part of the divine, to a cipher merely crawling through existence, constantly paranoid about being attacked by others or even of just offending others.
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