Anxiety and Illusions

If we take seriously the injunction to put all anxiety aside, then there is no need to hold onto any of it, not even that special thing about which we so love to worry, feeling it identifies us as concerned people or provides assurance that we do have something in common with others.  If St. Paul thought it would have been helpful, he would have said put aside the anxiety you choose not to have, the aspects that are truly not yours.  Hold to and cherish the illusion that by worry you can undo the rest.