“I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always … so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don’t, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
One of the leading truths of Christian Science healing is to conquer fear. Fear, in and of itself, has no power. But it needs to be stripped of its claim to power when it feels real to the human mind. Finding reality in divine Love dissolves that fear and removes it permanently.
So True! Thanks, Evan! Several acronyms for FEAR: “False Evidence Appearing Real” and “Forget Everything And Run!”…….Listening to the “Committee in my Head”, I will always hear, “What If….?, Better Watch Out, You’ll Never Make It”, etc. How to combat these assailants? Every morning, making a conscious decision and effort to put my Will and my Life in God’s hands – to pray, study, commune with, and meditate on this Ever Presence of Love that Always Surrounds Us! God Bless!
The human mind can’t stand happiness since it constantly promotes the reverse. We will never demonstrate C/S if we constantly fall for this promotion of horror. This is where fear comes from and this is where we have to fight it MENTALLY.
It’s not always easy to detect that fear voice. It sometimes masquerades as justifiable caution, It’s not always easy to move forward with the outcome unknown. Putting one’s very life in God’s hands every day is the only reliable answer – and richly rewarding.
I would like to send this to our political aspirants. They are the objects of fear-mongering (or they are the instigators of it). We can rule out false fears when we hear them seeking the truth the candidates have to offer.
So true.
Sometimes it is hard to distinguish fear from instinct. But I know the lack of balance and panic fear can bring is not from God. A clear direction to respond to in a tense moment is God telling me to walk this way, turn here, stop. It’s a ‘muscle’ to develop, ready to respond.
I was confronted recently concerning with many of my fellows I had worked with who died from cancer. Similar occupation and material age groups which I am in.
After sending an e-mail and voice mail to Evan, I had no fear. This was the basis of my getting tied up with mortal beliefs. I felt like 1000 pounds had been uplifted from my thoughts and felt a glow, the same glow I had when I completed our C.S. Class. The healing was instantaneous,
Thanks Evan.