If you are plagued by the limitations of fear, shyness, self-consciousness, then pause for a moment and consider the calm, unself-conscious poise Christ Jesus exhibited as he faced difficult encounters with his persecutors.
A commonly accepted view about contemporary technological societies is that the vast amount of knowledge they generate tends to frustrate and confuse the individual.
If we were to identify ourselves as characteristically mortal, having the birth-growth-decay-death cycle as our framework, then all of the things generally known as the problems of mankind would be inevitably and irrevocably true.