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Love or fear?By Franklin Mukakanga
Same actions=same resultsSame thoughts=same directionSame ol’=same ol’ 
It’s been said that success is not an accident. Well, neither is its opposite. If success hasits formulae, so does it’s opposite number. The opposite of success is not failure. Theopposite of success is your current status quo. When you set out to do something, you’renot coming at it from some deep dark negative field called ‘failure’. You are starting fromwhere you are, wherever that is. You’re starting from the ‘status quo’, aiming for ahigher, more satisfactory state, the achievement of which becomes your new status quo,making your original status quo the opposite of your success.So, really, you have nothing to lose if you go after something and it doesn’t work out.You’ll be right where you started. Not in some deep, dark abyss called ‘failure’, torturedby pitch‐fork wielding demons who delight in making you feel bad and unworthy, but right where you are now.The real question is, is that where you want to end up? Coming full circle is what hasbeen mistakenly called failure. Life is cyclical, what goes around comes around, and thus,advancement is spiral‐like. To be advancing is to be moving around and up. To ‘fail’ is tomove around and around, finding yourself exactly where you started from, perhaps overand over again. To regress is to move around and down.We all have dreams and goals that we say are important to us. We all have the power tocreate the life we really want, and if where you are now is where you want to be, then,that’s fine. It’s your choice to continue to pile up the sand on your sand castle.Unfortunately, your wiring doesn’t allow you the peace that you’d expect the making of such a choice would give you. You are wired to evolve, wired to move around and up.You are created for progress in all fields and aspects of your life, and anything lessleaves you feeling unfulfilled, empty, hollow and dejected. This evolutionary urge iswhat makes you human, and the actions taken are what separate the men from the boys,the women from the little girls.Becoming what you were created to be is, thus, not just an option. It is the reason you’rehere. Fail of this, and you will live your life in soulless mirth, partying and drinking yourdays away, or trying to escape this earthly life, never joyful or at peace here, and waitingfor the second coming, the rapture, to whisk you away to everlasting bliss; giving up theliving of your life here for the promise of life ‘there’. No doubt, there is an afterlife, insome way, shape or form, but to ignore your true earthly task—to be the fullest possibleexpression of the unique divine spark that is your inner essence—is folly of the highest order. I would wonder about a god who circumvents the natural urges placed withinhumanity to grow and become, stifling freewill and self‐discovery while rewarding onlythose that place constraints on their ‘reality’ and denounce and repress their impulsesand evolutionary drives.True, many of the things you’re hearing these days about self‐development andempowerment may seem a tad new, perhaps even ‘New‐Agey’, but have you stopped toconsider that, perhaps, the reason we are now learning the true dynamics of 
 
Spirit/God/the Universe/Source is because we finally have reached a level of consciousness that can apprehend or ‘reason with’ God, without appealing to the archaicor magical interpretations that were a part of our (humanity’s) childhood prehensions?We know that rain isn’t caused by gods pouring buckets of water from heaven. We’veharnessed the energy in the atom. We now know that there is no solid building block of the universe. That at the center of the smallest unitary element of nature is a void inwhich formless energy is in constant motion. That energy, vibrating at different frequencies, is what gives the impression of solids, liquids, form and space. Thanks toquantum physics we have an understanding of why we attract the things we do. Likeattracts like, and so the energy frequencies of your thoughts and feelings, your dreamsand expectations send out a homing signal that reverberates in the Universe, pullingtoward you, the sender of that signal, the things that are vibrating on the same energeticfrequency that you’ve sent out. Its “elementary, my dear Watson.”As in the case of the misunderstanding of the opposite of success (being ‘status quo’ andnot ‘failure’), there is a misunderstanding of the two most potent powers in theuniverse, which, likewise, have been given the ‘wrong’ pairing. Love is the first. Manysay that the opposite of love is hate, and it sure may feel that way sometimes, but what really happens when love is absent? There is a feeling of loss, disconnection, isolationand an overwhelming, sometimes irrational need to protect oneself. These feelings havea common root, and that root is fear. Fear, thus, is the opposite of love, and, thus, thesecond of the two powerful universal forces. And that is why, to quote the Bible, “perfect love casts out fear”. Just as light, being the opposite of darkness drives it away, so toodoes love, as the opposite of fear, cast it away.The two forces that will aid you in, or deter you from, growing and becoming who youwere made to be are, therefore, love and fear.You may not be able to choose your circumstances, but you can choose your response tothem, and by this response, either empower yourself and grow, or disempower yourself and either stay right where you are or regress. The choice is as simple as meeting a newopportunity and responding to it with love, acceptance and wonder, or meeting a newopportunity, perceiving it as a threat and responding to it with fear.Love liberates you. Fear locks you down.Love expands your capacities. Fear diminishes them.Love creates possibilities. Fear destroys hope.You’re on the road you’re on, living your life. Your evolutionary urge has led you to readthis article up to this point. You know you want a change. Your nature is calling you torise higher. You may even have signed up for one of my workshops but didn’t make it.What’s holding you back? Fear? Be honest with yourself. You owe it to yourself. You’regetting to the end of this article, and perhaps you want to get out and get on with yourlife, but before you do, let me share a final thought, taken from the exchange betweenTrinity and Neo in the Matrix, when Neo was about to get out of the car that was takinghim to meet Morpheus for the first time (taken from script):
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