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54. The cause of fear

Friday, Jun 11, 2021 1111 words 4 mins 56 secs

Reality, truth, power, will and causation always go together. Wherever you assign reality, you are also assigning all the other complementary properties.

God in his grace, is real and true and has unlimited will and power and causation. If God, as...

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53. Inadequate bodies induce shame and fear

Sunday, May 23, 2021 668 words 2 mins 58 secs

"Perhaps there is a fear of failure and shame associated with a sense of inadequacy."

"As long as you perceive the body as your reality, so long will you perceive yourself as lonely and deprived. And so long will you also...

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52. The fear of death

Saturday, Mar 27, 2021 866 words 3 mins 50 secs

If you were not afraid of death, you would remember God. The fear is death is a reaction to the belief in death. And the belief in death is an attempt to give reality, truth, life, will, power and mind,...

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51. Trust vs Fear

Monday, Nov 30, 2020 1457 words 6 mins 28 secs

When you are afraid, it is because you do not trust. Or more specifically, you trust the ego and yourself alone, rather than trusting God. You always trust something, whether it be reality or illusions.

When you trust in your own...

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50. The self-justifying lie of fear about God

Monday, Nov 16, 2020 1132 words 5 mins 1 secs

"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists."

When you are in your true self, there is no fear.

When you deny your true self, you enter into a state of fear.

In the state of fear, it seems there are "things to...

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49. The two emotions - fear and love

Thursday, Nov 05, 2020 1706 words 7 mins 34 secs

There are really only two modes of functioning of which you are capable. It really does boil down to a simple "this or that" decision. Either you are in love, or you are in fear. Love has only one nature,...

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48. The fear of permadeath

Saturday, Mar 07, 2020 590 words 2 mins 37 secs

It's not just death that we fear, it's permanent death. We tried to give all illusions a sense of eternity, constancy, permanence and irreversibility. We aren't just afraid of dying, or that someone will die. We're afraid it will be...

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47. There is no sin, guilt, fear, sickness or death

Monday, Feb 24, 2020 258 words 1 mins 8 secs

"There is no sin. Creation is unchanged."

"There IS no guilt in you, for God is blessed in His Son, as the Son is blessed in Him."

"There is no fear in perfect love."

"In the real world, there is no sickness, for...

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46. Fear is the opposite of love - all fear must go

Monday, Feb 17, 2020 671 words 2 mins 58 secs

Jesus redefines the meaning of fear. It is not some mere feeling that you have. In fact, He teaches that fear is the opposite of love. Love is essentially equated with the entire Kingdom of God and the nature of...

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45. The fearful compulsion to save

Sunday, Jan 05, 2020 966 words 4 mins 17 secs

When a situation presents itself, on a physical level, with signs and symptoms and effects that you can see and touch, it seems to be real to you. If you do not overlook it, they form evidence and proof that...

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44. Fear of nothing

Tuesday, Oct 08, 2019 494 words 2 mins 11 secs

Fear is always a fear of something that does not exist, is not happening, has not happened, and you cannot overcome. You can do nothing about the things you are afraid of, because they do not exist. You can't change...

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43. Most of the time, anger is actually an expression of fear

Tuesday, Jul 30, 2019 572 words 2 mins 32 secs

If when you feel angry you can actually acknowledge that you really feel afraid, the anger will often deflate in a matter of seconds, if not instantly.

Energetically speaking, the fear energy turns into anger when it intensifies and projects, or...

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42. Overcoming fearful attack thoughts

Thursday, Mar 21, 2019 893 words 3 mins 58 secs

Yesterday was quite a breakthrough. After making a video about immortality and writing a long post about how fear is self attack, Holy Spirit invited me to "practice" the ideas during a visit to a doctor. Usually at these visits...

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41. Fear is an attempt to hurt yourself and deny your immortality

Wednesday, Mar 20, 2019 3076 words 13 mins 40 secs

"All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the FEAR of awakening."

Fear is not "just fear". It's not just "an emotion". It's not just "one thing". It's not just "a reaction". Everything that fear appears to be,...

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40. Fear of judgement is self-inflicted suffering

Saturday, Feb 10, 2018 1620 words 7 mins 12 secs

I used to attack myself pretty severely through the fear of being judged by others. I was painfully shy and perceived a need to withdraw in an effort to protect myself, but all this did was hurt myself deeply.

My shyness...

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39. Fear is trusting in your own strength

Saturday, Jan 20, 2018 1002 words 4 mins 27 secs

From lesson 48: "There is nothing to fear."

"The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are trusting in your own strength. The awareness that there is nothing to fear shows that somewhere in your mind, though not necessarily...

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38. The cause of fear can be completely undone

Thursday, Jan 04, 2018 1274 words 5 mins 39 secs

It used to seem as though fear was automatic. We were taught it was a natural response, part of how the primitive brain works, understandable given certain threats, and so on.

But gradually I'm seeing more and more the secret to...

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37. The sole cause of all fear and suicide

Wednesday, Dec 20, 2017 1158 words 5 mins 8 secs

Fear has but one cause, not many. It is not caused by what you think it’s caused by. Every single fear in the world has one cause.

When you tried to sin, you may have believed you succeeded in creating real...

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36. Fear can very quickly turn into anger

Sunday, Nov 05, 2017 362 words 1 mins 36 secs

Being afraid, a person is perceiving that someone or something is an enemy or threat. Yet it not actually true that the thing is a threat. The person is just giving it that meaning and is seeing that projected onto...

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35. Fear is absolute bullshit

Sunday, Oct 15, 2017 781 words 3 mins 28 secs

Being afraid and perceiving that someone or something separate from you is attacking you, can ONLY happen if YOU are being an attacker.

Fear is self attack.

You position yourself as the one who is being attacked, as if to suggest, you...

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