OUR FEAR - ALONE ON THE ROAD
Moving on without holding on - letting go, inner calm and a personal new beginning.
Volume 1 of the series "Our Time"
An elephant is running away.
Large.
Heavy.
Powerful.
Behind a pane of glass sits a small mouse.
And yet it suddenly appears larger than it really is.
Not because it is dangerous.
But because fear distorts perception.
Suddenly something small becomes large.
A glance.
A thought.
A moment.
And that is exactly where much of what this book is about begins.
Because fear does not arise only from what is actually happening.
But also from what we turn it into within ourselves.
A quiet moment can change everything.
I was sitting at an outdoor table reading one of my books. The morning was calm. Behind me, the sea. In front of me, only this small car park on the edge of Auckland.
Then a Māori man sat down on the loading platform of my motorhome.
When our eyes met, he came over and drew me into a conversation.
“You do not sit with your backside where other people eat,” he said.
“Alright, I did not know that,” I replied and stood up.
Suddenly he kicked my thigh.
Moments like these do not remain because of the violence.
But because of what they reveal.
How quickly situations can shift.
How suddenly calm disappears.
And how long the body remembers moments like that.
This book is about moments like these.
About encounters on the road.
About inner unrest.
About fear, control and the attempt to remain calm anyway.
A life on the road changes the way you see many things.
You rarely stay long in one place. People appear, disappear again, conversations begin and dissolve. In between, quiet moments arise in which it becomes noticeable how much unrest many people now carry within themselves.
OUR FEAR is not a classic self-help book. It combines mindfulness, inner calm, stress relief and personal new beginnings with real experiences from a life on the road.
It is about fear.
About uncertainty.
About letting go.
And about the question of how to remain calm even though the world itself has become restless.
Between car parks, beaches and roads, a quiet picture of our time begins to emerge:
More control.
More inner tension.
More people functioning – while barely feeling themselves anymore.
This book explores themes such as:
• mindfulness and inner calm
• stress relief and mental clarity
• letting go and personal new beginnings
• minimalism and conscious living
• self-discovery and emotional healing
• fear, uncertainty and inner vigilance
But it is not about quick solutions.
It is about beginning to feel your own time again.
Who this book is for:
• for people who want to reduce stress and find inner calm
• for anyone struggling with overthinking, inner unrest or mental overload
• for readers who want to live more consciously and gain mental clarity
• for people who want to learn how to let go without losing themselves
This book is not an instruction manual.
It is a quiet space between things.
A book about fear, lifetime, inner calm and the courage to continue on your own path – honestly, quietly and without pressure.
Bernhard Christoph Lichtinger writes from lived experience – from fractures, detours and encounters that do not need to be invented.
If you have not yet read a volume from the book series “OUR TIME”, you can begin with one of the following books.
Volume 2: THE DOG CATCHERS OF BLENHEIM
Volume 4: THE WORLD IN THE MIND
Volume 5: not yet published