It is important to realize that cults are a dime a dozen and that a great many businesses are cults. - M. Scott Peck

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

But while all fear is not laziness, much fear is exactly that. Much of our fear is fear of a change in the status quo, a fear that we might lose what we have if we venture forth from where we are now. In the section on discipline I spoke of the fact

It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.