The Awareness of Self-Discovery By William Samuel
CHAPTER 9
The Phantom Of Fear
Dear Mary,
Concerning fear, listen with your Heart!
The images on the television screen may appear to shake, jump, roll and crack asunder but their gyrations do not, cannot, do anything to the screen. Can they?
Our Identity is the screen of life, "within" which the images of people, things, events, etc., appear; but those events cannot do anything to this Identity we are no matter how much they quake or threaten to!
"Seest thou this?" The consciousness that even now reads these words is the "screen" and the images included within it can do nothing to it or for it.
So do not be frightened. Words are just words; threats are just threats, sights are just sights—all powerless. Power ever resides as God, Reality, Isness which is even now being this awareness-we-are, this Life.
Reality is in no way self-destructive. The Identity we are is the very self of Deity—and there is no need for fear.
Have we not heard that "love casts out fears?" Have we not also heard that "God is love" and that God is all? Isn't All all? To be frightened is to disavow God's existence—and even a shadow cannot disavow the substance that produces the shadow. Unless God is frightened of Himself, fear is illusory—
Well, God is not frightened and fear is senseless foolishness, powerless to bind us. We are not bound by fear, Mary, and you do not need to act as though you are.
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Dear John,
To the point quickly:
I am aware of your fear and the depth of it. Furthermore, I'm aware of the sundry pictures that present themselves as the causes of fear and how very real they seem. But I am also aware, whether anyone on this earth believes me or not, that those appearances do not have the authority in themselves to cause us to panic. Our fear, like our grief, is often self-induced self love—unadulterated selfishness about a separate self that doesn't even exist in Truth.
Does the real Identity agonize? Does the perfect Identity run around in a panic? It does not!
Is the only Mind in all existence afraid of losing an aspect of Its own Self-awareness? Is Mind fearful it will forget something Mind knows Mind to be? If Mind is not afraid, who is?
If you say you are, you have the wrong you. That's the one to stop playing the role as.
We do not make progress out of strife. It only seems that way because the strife (fear, consternation, morbid depression and grind in the belly) is like a dam that blocks the flow of Unfoldment within (and as) itself. When the block is lifted momentarily, the accumulation rushes out into conscious awareness. Only that impostor, who lives the belief of the block, views his agony as a means of discerning his harmony—though it surely appears to be the only way we can find it so long as we are still struggling to be that unenlightened blockhead striving after a healing.
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Right now, right where you are, there is nothing that needs to be healed. The old nature of us believes there are appearances to belie this, but if we are going to react to those appearances as if they were an imperfection, then we do not really believe that God is ALL. Do we? How ALL is YOUR all?
Come home to your own "feelings" and insist on the "feel" of equanimity. In truth, we do not "feel" because of the sights and sounds of awareness; rather, sights and sounds appear as they do "because" of feeling. Find this sense of peace first. Experience follows suit.
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"Son" is an idea included within consciousness. There are no diseased ideas. The very one you tangibly see, hear, talk to and love is seen (heard, felt) within the consciousness presently reading these words. Consciousness is God's action of Self-perception and God is quite responsible for all it contains and for perceiving it perfectly.
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