Definition: Fear

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Revision: 18 May 2025

Fear

An indication of confusion, unawakeness, and untruth.
An indication that the idea of separation is believed.
Fear is an awakening opportunity (when understood correctly).
Fear arises when a thought in the Mind that is all minds forgets what it is and believes that it is vulnerable. When there is the belief in vulnerability, experiences that confirm vulnerability manifest.
Belief in finitude and thinking about finitude necessarily give rise to fear.
Defensiveness follows necessarily from fear.
Fear arises with beliefs in insecurity or potential insecurity.
Fear defines the egoic state.
Fear follows identification with finiteness, form, and separation.
Fear tends to be most deeply lodged in the body, and in parts of the psyche where one would rather not look.
Love is an antidote to fear.
Love is the unfailing remedy to fear.
Fear dissolves in the presence of love.
Since love has no opposite, fear is not the opposite of love.
Fear is transcended with the realization of oneness.
To transcend fear completely, all fear must be flushed from the body-mind-world system of the One.

Sayings:

“Given oneness, if there is fear anywhere, there is fear in here.”
“To follow the path of fear to liberation, recognize that everywhere one feels fear, there is a belief in separation.”
“If there is no fear anywhere in the body-mind-world system, then there can be no insecurity, vulnerability, or disease in the bodymind system.”