Facing Up to Disdain and Anxiety

May: Most of us fear our freedom and the burden that it carries. anxiety is something that arises when we glimpse just how free we really are or how much potentiality really exists, he says. As May himself says, despair is the smelting furnace which melts out the impurities of the ore. The point is that facing up to despair, as hard as it might be, can prove tremendously motivational," writes May.