avoidance

The continued and complete avoidance of something gives away the very urgent necessity for -at some point - that very same thing to be discovered, delved deeply into, and actually utilised in your life. As such, the only way out of something is often to go into it...confront, it face it, and overcome.

We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.

The way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.'

You can hold back from the suffering of the world. This is something you are free to do. But perhaps precisely this holding back is the only suffering you might be able to avoid.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing there own soul.