The faster you can get from Los Angeles to Hawai’i, the more Hawai’i becomes exactly like Los Angeles.
Anxiety is the condition that comes upon us when we fundamentally mistrust ourselves, when we mistrust our own nature, and are trying to keep such a tight grip on it that we start to tremble as one’s hand starts to tremble if you become extremely anxious to hold it still.
When we go with our own nature, our own inner feelings, we come into control of them. We don’t lose control. If we fight them we get in that state of balled-upness, of anxiety, of dither, which makes us incapable of doing anything at all—an anxiety and a dither which is comparable to the whole problem of maintaining freedom in a world like ours; a problem that we are in danger of losing our freedom through being over-anxious to preserve it.
