Chapter 4
There is nothing to fear. Fear is certainly compelling. It has its own language. It sounds very reasonable. Let’s face it. Fear is very bossy. Fear is very frightened that you will identify its source. Fear would rather you didn’t question its motives.
Fear wears many masks. Some of them appear to be very reasonable. Many of fear’s masks are frightening. Fear would rather that you never asked what it was really all about.
Fear is constructed out of a labyrinth of deceit. Fear would rather you didn’t face the truth. The truth is that you are eternal and nothing can harm you. Nothing can harm the “you” that is eternal. Fear would rather you did not know that.
Fear has a lot invested in your confusion. Fear is more than a feeling. Fear is a reaction. Intuition will tell you whether or not something is right for you. Based on your intuition, you will know what to do and what not to do if you are listening to your heart.
Fear is resistance to the unknown. What you resist will persist. Go with the flow, and you will know peace.
Fear does not want to surrender. Fear wants to ramp up your resistance. The more you resist, the more you will manifest exactly what you fear.
It is very simple. Whatever you are running from is what you are running toward. Facing your fear is a matter of confronting the validity of your resistance.
A deeper understanding of love is what frightens us most. Love changes everything. Love leads us into a deeper understanding of who we are. Why do we resist understanding that we are more than we imagined we were? Why are we so afraid to return to the light?
Perhaps we fear the light because we usually don’t return to it until after we have died a physical death. We can hold the light within our hearts in the third dimension. To experience the light of love in our hearts on the terrestrial plane we have to experience complete detachment from the sensual world. We often confuse detachment with deprivation. We have a longstanding tradition in our world of reserving enlightenment for a select group of people who renounce all earthly pleasures and live lives of celibacy and material poverty. We also have a longstanding tradition of persecuting people who are enlightened. No wonder we are wary.
Detachment and deprivation are two different things. Detachment is freedom from expectations. Deprivation is born out of the expectation that poverty leads to enlightenment. Poverty and excess are both indirect paths to enlightenment. They both point to love by clarifying what love isn’t. Neither path is necessary for enlightenment.
Unconditional love is neither deprivation of love or love in excess. Unconditional love is love that is free of expectations. It is born from a heart that stays open against all odds.