If you don't mind a question about your signature: " But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of"
Is that because people react to what they fear and try to get away from it?
I think that is how most people live their lives.
I wonder if it is not possible to live beyond what we want and what we are afraid of and live in that joy of being that hides within us somewhere.
Just a thought if you care to follow it.