Noah Levine

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My whole life I'd blamed everybody. It was the cops, it was the system, it was parents, teachers, name it. It was their fault. And that moment in the rubber room after a suicide attempt in juvenile hall, this is not everyone else's fault. I have created the mess that I'm in. And from that place of personal responsibility came a ton of shame and guilt and a flood of pain and an inkling of hope. If I created it maybe I can do something about it. If it's not everyone's fault and I'm not just a victim then perhaps there's the possibility of change.
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But even when we're free from that stuff for the most part there's still gonna be fear. And maybe we need to make different words from the kind of healthy sense of, "I'm not gonna step out onto the road because I'm afraid of getting run over", that's a healthy, wholesome fear - don't get free from that, you'll be in big trouble. But it's quite different than that kind of fear-based mentality that stops us from action and what we need to do and should be doing. And so yeah, for the most part I feel like it is about coexisting with fear. Freeing ourselves from the neurotic unwholesome fears.