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Student Q&A with Guy on "The End of the Fear of Everything" (9/18/24)
Posted: Thursday, September 19, 2024
Meeting: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Duration: 15min 1sec
Topics Covered
The end of fear is not only possible, it is the purpose of your life to realize the end of it.
The worldly kind of success and security that you pursue turn into things that you fear losing.
A river is constant, even though it is never the same river. It is the same with real life itself.
The condition does not create fear. It is the divided consciousness -- that identifies with conditions -- that produces fear.
The mind decides how it will respond to a moment before the moment even happens.
We live in a ceaseless state of urgency to find a life without fear, but it is fear that sends us out on the search.
This fear of a darkness to come is the time of darkness itself. That nature produces the very punishment that it promises to free you from.
If you ever want to be free from fear, it must be fear itself from which you are liberated. Real freedom is not freedom from what fear is pointing to (outside of yourself) as the cause of your captivity.
Unconscious desire produces an endless state of identification with conditions that are promised to lead to the end of fear. The nature of desire is bottomless. Nothing is ever enough.
It isn't that you need to change what you see. What needs to be changed is the nature of the seer.
Each moment that comes is the revelation of a nature that does not understand its relationship with life.
Fear has no authority over a human being until he or she looks to fear for guidance to understand what the moment means.
Fear promises relief from pain, when fear is the punishment itself.
We need a new relationship with fear that fear cannot create. Don't look to fear to tell you how to be free.
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." -- New Testament
Fear is present in your life because you have listened to what fear says freedom is.
Fear makes deals, God never does. The mind is a master deal-maker.
Our task is to bring fear into the light of awareness so that its true nature can be revealed, which changes our relationship with it.
We are content with our fear, because fear always promises an end to torment if we will allow it to lead where it will.
The new mind is the mind that sees fear as a correction in the nature that is afraid.
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