These two quotes came into my world yesterday, minutes apart, one seeming to speak directly to the other.

When things like this happen, I try not to step over those messages, so I will share them both here.

We would never move forward in the face of negative emotion. There are many people who would teach you otherwise. They say, you’ve got to face fear to get over it. And all they do is desensitize themselves to the point that they get themselves into situations where they have no idea what’s going on, and the end of them comes rather abruptly… [widget id=”text-9″]text-9[/widget]And then everyone calls them brave.[widget id=”text-9″]text-9[/widget]

— Abraham[widget id=”text-9″]text-9[/widget]

Excerpted from the workshop in San Diego, CA on Saturday, February 7th, 2004[widget id=”text-9″]text-9[/widget]

And then in my reading up on the Olympics, I was struck by this quote from the Georgian luger, Nodar Kumaritashvili, who died in a practice run on Friday.[widget id=”text-9″]text-9[/widget]

Before the accident, Kumaritashvili called his father telling him how he was afraid of a specific part of the run.[widget id=”text-9″]text-9[/widget]

“Dad, I’m very scared of this spot on the track,” Mr. Kumaritashvili recalls his son saying. “It’s very, very fast.[widget id=”text-9”]text-9[/widget]

“I told him, brake, brake, don’t risk it,” his father said.[widget id=”text-9″]text-9[/widget]

“No Dad, I’ll risk it,” Kumaritashvili told his father. “What will be will be.”[widget id=”text-9”]text-9[/widget]

(story by ALEXANDER MARQUARDT)