| fear is as illusory as the abyss. This fear can exist only because you deny your self-responsibility | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| connections and chain reactions would automatically eliminate your fear of others, of becoming a victim. You could | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to you and you would then lose your fear of being helpless. You are helpless because you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| responsibility away from yourself. So you see that fear is the heavy price you must pay for | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| Utopia can actually exist. Therefore, you have to fear other people, their judgement, their wrongdoings. In this | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| cease being afraid of the world. If your fear of life and the inadequacy of others is | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of your life. Therefore you need have no fear. In other words, your findings must make you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| again you can test the validity of your fear by jumping in and finding yourself afloat. You | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| conclusion that you cannot err. The guilt and fear of making mistakes is so hard to bear | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| variety of faults without the slightest guilt or fear. In this particular respect you have freed yourself | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| seemed arbitrary. Once you realize how much you fear giving up Utopia in all its ramifications, you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| independence. This will free you of your basic fear of life. It will release heretofore wasted forces | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| completely new attitude: as a free being without fear. You will know with a deep conviction that | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and self-responsibility makes a person prey to the fear of harmful influences from outside. Once people are | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be self-destructive, life-defeating; it can be guilt or fear. But the negative in you must exist, otherwise | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that is sufficient to give you freedom from fear in the knowledge of a just world in | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happen. But all the layers of ignorance and fear soon erect a separating wall again. The aim | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| anxieties, especially when dealing with other people. Your fear of others is always based on your feeling | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| ask yourself further questions. Is it a personal fear of death -- which, again, is human and | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as the continuation of life after death, the fear of death, the fear of life, the fear | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life after death, the fear of death, the fear of life, the fear of other human beings | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fear of death, the fear of life, the fear of other human beings and yourself, the distrust | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| beings and yourself, the distrust because of this fear. The answer to these questions can only become | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love is often much less determined by the fear of being hurt and disappointed than by the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| one has to hide. The realization that your fear of loving is often based less on your | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of loving is often based less on your fear of being hurt and disappointed than on the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| adopting the right concepts, you will cease to fear that love is humiliating; that humility, generosity, affection | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| wickedness, or even selfishness. Neither is it the fear of being hurt and disappointed. Yes, all these | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| will see that you do not have to fear, you do not have to be ashamed. The | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you do not have to be ashamed. The fear comes mostly as a consequence of the shame | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| motive of evil and sin, you no longer fear it, you no longer feel personally at stake | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| true concept of reality, you can love without fear, and therefore you live without sin, if you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| not easily understood for anyone living in such fear. Whatever can be said will be heard as | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| of your inner conflicts, the causes of this fear, you will see the way and gain the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| understanding of how and why you need not fear anything, even before you are actually free of | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| even before you are actually free of the fear. At least, you will see the way. Whenever | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| your wrong conclusions in connection with a particular fear, you see that the path clearly indicates that | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the path clearly indicates that you need not fear. Whenever you shall have gained the full understanding | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| gained the full understanding of what self-responsibility means, fear dissolves because you know without a doubt that | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| about this matter will be theory. But to fear does not make sense. The freedom and safety | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| a person is, spiritually and emotionally, the less fear that person will have. This is because of | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| such fears that you examine exactly why you fear only such happenings and not so many other | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| specific and more personal reason than the general fear you mentioned here. When you find your specific | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| find your specific reason you will lose this fear. Without this personal search you may, at best | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| understand my explanations in your intellect, but the fear will remain, or manifest in another way. QUESTION | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| moment, however, would I not experience a terrible fear and shock, even if right now I'm not | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| my point. I was talking about the irrational fear of being murdered. You can approach freedom only | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to reach is to free yourself of the fear that something might happen, although there is no | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| and death. The healthy person will not unduly fear them because that person has accepted this. These | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| with regard to being murdered, but no such fear, or very little fear exists of death in | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| murdered, but no such fear, or very little fear exists of death in any other way, there | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| will, against all order and justice. Thus, the fear is actually about being helplessly exposed to an | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the subtle bodies, usually because of an unknown fear. If, however, a person is a bad subject | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| it indicates a tight holding on, a general fear and distrust in life as a whole that | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| such tight holding-on to the self, has no fear or distrust of life. The fears may manifest | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| not need either defiance or rebellion; how much fear and shame still lingers in you about this | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| will be undisturbed and do not have to fear interruptions. Sit down comfortably. Do not lie down | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| it was not, did you desist out of fear or out of dependency on others' approval? Or | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| my wishes was not followed through due to fear. I have resigned myself to this. But if | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| healthy outlets -- which is always based on fear and dependency anyway -- may show you a | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| inner barriers to facing yourself have disappeared. No fear is left in you to face anything. Therefore | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| to cease, you could never really lose your fear of them, for the worry and suspicion may | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| and exhilarating, after you have overcome your initial fear and shame. You see, the desire to be | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the other extreme of locking your heart in fear of giving love because of the hurt that | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in your body. Inner errors cause you to fear life, therefore, often unconsciously, to wish for death | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of death. The weakness, resulting from tension and fear, indirectly creates a weakening of the physical body | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| being untrue, in the last analysis always create fear and withdrawal from life. When the illusions are | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has to do with the human reluctance and fear to reveal the best in oneself. You are | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| but not the real happiness that does not fear life any longer. There is a great difference | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the good and the bad, without withdrawal, without fear. For life cannot ever harm you. Peace for | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| On the other hand, people who withdraw in fear from love -- and therefore from life -- | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| or illusion, which is largely responsible for your fear of loving, is the idea, perhaps unconscious, that | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| bound to bring you unhappiness, confusion, tension, and fear. Reality, or truth, is bound to bring you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| attached to them was unreal. The more your fear of loving produces the urgent desire to be | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| longer hurt. In this attitude you will not fear criticism or disapproval; your forcing current will dissolve | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| own problems, the inability to love, and the fear of love. You will also recognize that for | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| as personally and particularly. Find out how your fear of loving makes you withdraw and how guilty | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| it more fully later to eliminate your unreasonable fear of it. For the present, I will say | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| where and how you deviate out of unreasonable fear based on misconceptions. We shall then compare the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| Be in peace, be in God! 72. THE FEAR OF LOVING Greetings, my dearest friends. I bring | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| after much digging and exploring, come across a fear of loving. Those of you who really work | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| constructively have finally become fully aware that this fear exists. This is good progress, indeed, for without | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| does not suffice to be aware of your fear theoretically. You must actually experience the fear. Most | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| your fear theoretically. You must actually experience the fear. Most people who do not wish to know | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| know themselves are not even aware that this fear is in them. However, even you who have | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| this need may not be gratified. In your fear of rejection and defeat such submissiveness seems the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| up dignity, self-government, and freedom, you will not fear it. If you do not make childish demands | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| how others should love you, you will not fear loving others. In the gradual process of growth | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| at the same time hide from it in fear. The child in you knows only extremes. It | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| situation is at hand, you need have no fear of loving. The courage to accept that which | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| inconvenient means acceptance of reality, loss of your fear of loving, and the cultivation of your intuition | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| everyday life and emotions will you lose your fear of loving. This sentence alone, out of context | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| we seem to have which include both a fear of loss and fear of the unknown. This | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| which include both a fear of loss and fear of the unknown. This again ties in basically | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| You see, what you said here about the fear of the unknown is a very important element | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| in you rejects it as unknown danger. The fear of the unknown makes humans distort true concepts | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| into dogma. Rigidity satisfies the very irrational, unfounded fear in the human soul. Humans think that what | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is alive, it must be flexible. So people fear truth and light and life. The belief that | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| work, you will find first that this particular fear also exists in you and that you, too | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| automatically shifted onto yourself. When you no longer fear self-responsibility, because you have lost your self-contempt and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| and mistrust in yourself, you will no longer fear the flexible universe. You will not need to | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| who cannot or dare not assume self-responsibility. The fear of the unknown really comes from insecurity: Will | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| make a mistake? In other words the deepest fear of the unknown is not knowing yourself. As | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is not knowing yourself. As you lose this fear, you will not fear self-responsibility and you will | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| As you lose this fear, you will not fear self-responsibility and you will not fear the truth | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| will not fear self-responsibility and you will not fear the truth of the flexible laws of the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| flexible laws of the universe. Nor will you fear life, which is flexible all the time. By | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is unchangeable, yet never static. QUESTION: The word fear has come up a number of times this | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| And you used the words irrational and unfounded fear. This leads me to believe that there must | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| there must be a rational and a founded fear. We are taught here, for example, that fear | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| fear. We are taught here, for example, that fear has a negative connotation and stands for a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| And then we read in Scripture that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| Splendor) there is a comparison of love and fear of God to the wings of the bird | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| speak a little about these two kinds of fear? ANSWER: These are two distinct questions. The answer | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the first, about the rational versus the irrational fear is this: If you are in some kind | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| in some kind of danger, your reaction to fear is healthy. It is like a signal, giving | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| generally discuss in our work. As to the fear of God, this has absolutely nothing to do | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| absolutely nothing to do with the healthy protective fear we just discussed. Any reference to fear of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| protective fear we just discussed. Any reference to fear of God in Scripture is due to translations | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| with the God-image, as well as with the fear of the unknown. On the one hand, people | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| be self-responsible. On the other hand, an unhealthy fear is generated, which always happens when maturity and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| maturity and self-responsibility are not attained. Whether you fear an avenging God, life, other human beings, or | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| terms in the Bible; in reality the word fear means something quite different, perhaps best described by | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| must be in awe -- but never in fear! In coming across such wonder, one cannot help | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| in the word that was erroneously translated as fear. But it is not meant that way. Is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| pertaining to the word given to us as fear, the Hebrew word is Y(I)R(A | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| back to the question that was asked about fear and the mismanagement of instinct in that regard | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| Then you are all the more engulfed in fear, never knowing when to trust your intuition or | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you cease being fear-ridden for unrealistic reasons, when fear does come up you will question it intelligently | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| for you. Our last discussion was about the fear of loving. The subject of love was presented | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| damage as a manifest one. They will not fear to uncover the real emotion and will feel | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to your childhood for you to correct. Your fear, your self-punishment, your frustration, your anger, your hostility | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| tendency to let the spirit wander away is fear: fear of life, therefore fear of being in | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to let the spirit wander away is fear: fear of life, therefore fear of being in the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| wander away is fear: fear of life, therefore fear of being in the present reality of life | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| being in the present reality of life, and fear of coping with life. Another factor is a | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| unconscious in most. When we discussed the general fear of life, fear of the unknown, you learned | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| When we discussed the general fear of life, fear of the unknown, you learned that it is | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the distorted God-image which is responsible for that fear. You may unconsciously fear that there is an | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| is responsible for that fear. You may unconsciously fear that there is an arbitrary god who metes | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| God, you will automatically lose some of your fear and insecurity. You will know that you are | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| submitting to unjustified demands out of weakness and fear, but by constructive work of self-analysis and inner | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| and pride. You withdraw your real self in fear of losing something, and in so doing you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| stem from three basic ones: self-will, pride, and fear. No matter which fault you take, examining it | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| follows the transition. You may obstruct it and fear it in your ignorance, but the longing always | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| afraid of change. But you have nothing to fear. Much of your life and your opinions may | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and destructive ways. Truly, you have nothing to fear in approaching this great transition, for what is | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| happiness and security! How foolish of you to fear, deep within your hearts, that in leaving the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| precious behind. Try to find that unreasonable, irrational fear and resistance. It is right there in you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| reach very far or deep to find the fear. The basic resistance to transition is expressed in | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| how every impulse related to this outlook creates fear and insecurity and is futile and senseless. The | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |