We are slaves to the verb ‘to be’. That is one of our peculiarities, the consistent slavery: ‘to be’, to become’, ‘there shall be’ and ‘what has been’. Now, words condition the mind, and we are slaves to words. The verb ‘to be’ has extraordinary significance in our life, and that verb has conditioned our thinking. When you observe yourself you will see, if you have not already, that we are always postponing, that we are always caught in the habit of becoming. The negation of becoming is not-being, and we are afraid of not being.