How Did MLK Jr overcome his fear?
Possibly, you will never fully eradicate your fear. Your fear is a natural given response that heightens your awareness and helps you stay alive in dangerous situations.
Your fear is a tool, a gift, and so much more when it does not paralyze you.
Those deemed the greatest people in human history faced fear head-on.
Martin Luther King Jr. overcame Fear. He became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. MLK Jr is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi said…
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Where there is love there is life.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
The future depends on what we do in the present.
Action expresses priorities.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
If you don’t ask, you don’t get it
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
MLK Jr
became the change he wished to see in the world!
How do you keep fear at bay? How do you conquer it?
Martin Luther King Jr’s, “A Gift Of Love” is a magnificent read for re-making yourself!.
I especially recommend the section on facing fear.
Is your fear a calling to live a life of courage and fearless fulfillment?
Conquering Fear: Martin Luther King Jr. wrote:
“First we must unflinchingly face our fears and honestly ask ourselves why are we afraid. This confrontation will, to some measure, grant us power. We shall never be cured of fear by escapism or repression, for the more we attempt to ignore and repress our fears, the more we multiply our inner conflicts…By looking squarely and honestly at our fears we learn that many of them resides in some childhood need or apprehension… By bringing our fears to the forefront of consciousness, we may find them to be more imaginary than real. Some of them will turn out to be snakes under the carpet.”
You must begin to parent yourself where fear is concerned! You can feel the Fear and take action Anyway!
Your COURAGE IS ALWAYS NECESSARY
“We can master fear through one of the supreme virtues known to man: courage. Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear. Unlike anxiety, fear has a definite object which may be faced, analyzed, attacked, and, if need be, endured.”
Wrote Martin Luther King Jr.
Courage helps you Evolve!
“Courage, the determination not to be overwhelmed by any object, however frightful, enables us to stand up to any fear. Many of our fears are not mere snakes under the carpet. Trouble is a reality in this strange medley of life, dangers lurk within the circumference of every action, accidents do occur, bad health is an ever-threatening possibility, and death is a stark, grim and inevitable fact of human experience.” Wrote Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote: “Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of obstacles and frightening situations; cowardice is a submissive surrender to circumstance. Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. ”
To get new results in your life, do you need to quit something you are doing?
LOVE IS STRONGER
“Fear is mastered through love. Hate is rooted in fear, and the only cure for fear-hate is love. Is not fear one of the major causes of war? We say that war is a consequence of hate, but close scrutiny reveals this sequence; first fear, then hate, then war, and finally deeper hatred. We are afraid of the superiority of other people, of failure, and of the scorn of disapproval of those whose opinions we most value.”
Wrote Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote: “Envy, jealousy, a lack of self-confidence, a feeling of insecurity, and a haunting sense of inferiority are all rooted in fear. Is there a cure for these annoying fears that pervert our personal lives? Yes, a deep and abiding commitment to the way of love. “Perfect love casteth out fear.” Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that.””
TO HAVE FAITH
“Fear is mastered through faith. A common source of fear is an awareness of deficient resources and of consequent inadequacy for life. Abnormal fears and phobias that are expressed in neurotic anxiety may be cured by psychiatry; but the fear of death, nonbeing, and nothingness, expressed in existential anxiety, may be cured only by a positive religious faith.”
Wrote Martin Luther King Jr.
“A positive religious faith does not offer an illusion that we shall be exempt from pain and suffering, nor does it imbue us with the idea that life is a drama of unalloyed comfort and untroubled ease. Rather, it instills us with the inner equilibrium needed to face strains, burdens, and fears that inevitably come, and assures us that the universe is trustworthy and that God is concerned.”
Wrote Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote: “Religion endows us with the conviction that we are not alone in this vast, uncertain universe. Beneath and above the shifting sands of time, the uncertainties that darken our days, and the vicissitudes that cloud our nights is a wise and loving God. Above the manyness of time stands the one eternal God, with wisdom to guide us, strength to protect us, and love to keep us. ”
