Fear of the unknown.

We feel secure in the known, in the certain, in the predictable. No matter how miserable we are in it.

Possibility lies beyond the known.

The company who would hire you, the person you'd end up falling in love with, the place you would start calling home may all be unknown to you right now.

The more we engage with possibility, the more fear shows up. But we can learn to dance with it because the unknown is where most of our dreams and desires lie.

“We also feel more secure when we can identify objects and determine their location. An indication of this is that the term minefield stands as a universally appreciated metaphor for danger. It feels safer to deal with reality as though it were fixed, as though people, ideas, and situations can be fully known and measured.”

The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander & Ben Zander