Use simple words, words that _create pictures_ and _action_ and that _generate feeling._ - Gerry Spence

Every triumph is preceded by fear. Fear always initiates the act of breaking free. And why? What is the biological advantage of a trapped psyche? Breaking out, walking freely through the forest, leaving old trails for new ones always entails a certain quantum of risk. Might we not come face to face with the lurking enemy? Might we fail to measure up? Might we not be injured or killed? But both the forest and the enemy are within. Life entails risk. If it were otherwise, one could not bear to live it, for the risks of boredom, of being trapped within the self — the chick dying in the egg — of dying without having lived, are risks far greater than any that lurk in the forest.

Our prejudices — we all have them — are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.