My noticing my present experience helps me reduce anxiety about an uncertain future. I have never had perfect tranquility of any kind and I expected I never will, and that is fine with me. Nothing is perfect. Ordinary tranquility being at-ease) can coexist with intense action. My experience with my close friend taught me that it is okay to be terrified all the time. The terror is okay when I notice the terror in the present and what I notice that the terror relates to a fear of the future. What I noticed terror I frequently notice that I am causing the terror and this greatly reduces the terror and/or anxiety. I still have not deeply experienced oneness with everyone and everything but I strongly believe that I am and that belief helps me realize that there is no separate one to be terrified or anxious. It relates to the first few sentences of the Dharmapada: "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." Anxiety and terror are part of the world we make and when we notice we make it, we can unmake it. Thanks for the opportunity to respond. Warm and kind regards to all.
On May 12, 2012 Conrad P. Pritscher wrote :