Overcoming Fear

When Costa Ndayisabye, author of The Work that Brings Peace in Me, first met Tim Stoklosa, he knew Tim was someone special. It was Tim's peaceful way of living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy that got Costa's attention, and a special bond developed between them that led to the writing of this book. Tim is a living example of how we can cultivate peace by letting go of fear. When we are fearful, we become "care-less," and we create that "don't care" spirit in our minds and then fearfully project that to the outside. When we do not care for each other, we do not care for ourselves. Caring takes moving past the fear, to understand the potential value and goodness of all human beings, and to seek caring ways of solving human problems. Not caring is a reaction to the confusion that emanates from a mind full of FEAR. Our hope is that Tim's story awakens us to a larger understanding, and to discover as Tim and Costa have discovered, the power of peacefully Living the Present.

When Costa Ndayisabye, author of The Work that Brings Peace in Me, first met Tim Stoklosa, he knew Tim was someone special. It was Tim's peaceful way of living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy that got Costa's attention, and a special bond developed between them that led to the writing of this book. Tim is a living example of how we can cultivate peace by letting go of fear. When we are fearful, we become "care-less," and we create that "don't care" spirit in our minds and then fearfully project that to the outside. When we do not care for each other, we do not care for ourselves. Caring takes moving past the fear, to understand the potential value and goodness of all human beings, and to seek caring ways of solving human problems. Not caring is a reaction to the confusion that emanates from a mind full of FEAR. Our hope is that Tim's story awakens us to a larger understanding, and to discover as Tim and Costa have discovered, the power of peacefully Living the Present.

Costa's parents fled a Tutsis massacre in Rwanda to Burundi in 1959. After his mother was widowed at a young age, he and his siblings grew up in extreme poverty. Costa was imprisoned and tortured three times, in Congo and Burundi at the age of seventeen, and in Rwanda. The family repatriated to Rwanda in 1995 after the Tutsis Genocide, which took the lives of almost one million innocents within a period of 100 days. Inspired by the School for The Work with Byron Katie, where he found the true line of his innerpeace, Costa became an international presenter and facilitator for individual healing and interpersonal reconciliation. He and his family emigrated to the United States in 2009. His first book, The Work That Brings Peace in Me, tells of his journey from FEAR to LOVE, and is an invitation to focus on The Present by questioning our mind. Overcoming Fear is his second book. Costa is currently studying for a Masters in Public Adminstration degree.