Fear

"If you take any action – leaving or changing your situation – drop the negativity first, if at all possible. Action arising out of insight into what is required is more effective than action arising out of negativity.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you can learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing. Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it." -Eckhart Toelle's THE POWER OF NOW (1997)

I was just thinking about how I came to terms with my two conflicting desires of wanting to be in a relationship with a woman, and wanting to be in a relationship with a man. Both fulfill different deep desires that I have, but with both choices I have to give up things. What I came to realize was that I had very powerful fears in relation to both choices, that greatly affected the choices I made-meaning sometimes I chose to do nothing in order to not be scared.
2 Timothy 1:7 tells us that Heavenly Father does not give us the spirit of fear. It must then be from Satan, and when I make decisions based on fear I am letting him influence me. Taking fear out of the equation, and just letting prayer and the spirit influence the decisions I make have allowed me to follow the path that has helped me grow the most and realize what is going to bring me the greatest measure of joy-looking both at this life and the next.