What would happen to any of us if we knew, without having to take thought, that the universe was set up to help us succeed with becoming fearless because we understand the right attitude to take... no matter what the moment seems to bring?
No fact of life is frightening unless it runs into conflict with what we want. And when that happens, can you see it's not the event that is fearful? What is fearful is something in us that suddenly feels that something it has imagined will make it whole and real is going to be taken from us.
So we can either spend our life struggling to protect ourselves from our fears -- which is really the general existence of the unconscious masses -- or we can learn how to use our life to discover that, in reality, there is no such self to feel the fears that it does... and that the shaky world of that shadowy self is really nothing more than its own unreal shadow.
Have you ever watched the shadow of a tree as it moves through the wind? The shadow of the tree as it's moving isn't the tree. It is what happens when something obscures the light. And in the obscuring of the light, we look at something that seems real, but we know only exists because of the absence of light in that moment. It's exactly the same thing when it comes to freeing ourselves from fear.
The good news is that it's possible to bring so much light into unwanted moments, to learn so much about the nature of fear, that one day fear literally just runs out of ways to make us believe in its shaking. Imagine: Something in you starts to get nervous and afraid, but at the same time there is something in you that can see so clearly that the feel is real but the why is a lie. And then that same intelligence just allows the whole moment to pass by without being imprisoned by any reaction to it.
So we should be thankful that something in us shows us where we are identified with an image or an idea, and that out of that identification comes this summary reaction where we feel threatened because something is saying, "I'm going to lose myself." Fear wants us to believe it, but it's impossible to lose our true self!
The universe is set up for us to succeed with becoming a fearless human being, which means we are made for what happens to us. Every moment that unfolds in front of us, every revelation -- regardless of whether it is wanted or not -- holds within it the possibility of showing us something so profound about ourselves that we can be released from any false understanding, and therefore the fear that comes with it, on the spot.
