What we fear we pay
Attention to and become
Mentally one with.
Nothing attracts mind's
Attention like Fear or Love --
Two sides of One Coin.
***
Perfect Love casts out
Fear because they're alternate
States of Awareness.
Perfect Love casts out
Fear because they're vibrant states
Of One Awareness.
"Love casts out all fear"
For the same reason that Light
Casts out All Darkness.
***
To overcome fear
I must transcend all sense of
Being separate.
To overcome fear
Belief in Being other
Than I Am must go.
(1) Inspiration-Wise:
"When you fear God,
You fear nothing else,
Whereas if you
Do not fear God,
You fear everything
Else." -- Oswald Chambers
(2) Poetically-Wise:
A. Goodbye
Dream of future, ghost of past,
Gone forever, awake at last;
There’s no tomorrow, yesterday’s gone,
Realize this truth, don’t be a pawn.
Gone tomorrow, once dear friend,
Your hope was false, offered no end;
You too yesterday’s siren song,
Love’s soft memory, dead so long.
Once you see, you’re always here,
Need not move, and have no fear;
Live as you are, love where you’re at,
Nothing and nowhere better than that. (Circa 1983)
B. The Tiger (Nature)
TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
-- William Blake
(3) Scripturally Speaking:
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." Proverbs 9:10 KJV
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." Proverbs 1:7 KJV
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments : his praise endureth for ever." Psalm 111:10 KJV
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." 1 John 4:18 KJV
(4) Alan Watts-Wise:
“…the undivided mind is aware of experience as a unity, of the whole as itself, and that the whole nature of the mind and awareness is to be one with what it knows, suggests a state usually called love.”
Alan Watts (from “The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety,” pg. 130)
(5) Definition of Fear-Wise:
"The word translated "fear" in many versions of the Bible comes from the Hebrew word yirah (יִרְאָה), which has a range of meaning in the Scriptures. Sometimes it refers to the fear we feel in anticipation of some danger or pain, but it can also can mean "awe" or "reverence." In this latter sense, yirah includes the idea of wonder, amazement, mystery, astonishment, gratitude, admiration, and even worship (like the feeling you get when gazing from the edge of the Grand Canyon). The "fear of the LORD" therefore includes an overwhelming sense of the glory, worth, and beauty of the One True God."
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Scripture/Parashah/Summaries/Eikev/Yirah/yirah.html
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