5-16. Your fears have no power but that which you give them. Look to the darkness no longer. A different melody plays for you now. It is the Song of Love. Listen... it will show you that you are already Home.
Fear creates a cacophonous misophony possessed of an unrelentingly discordant structure, always cackling away in the background of your mind, desirous of distracting you endlessly, constantly uttering a refrain of dislocation from Truth and dissociation from Love. It is an unwinnable contest between your innate rationality - that little voice of certainty that assures you that there can be no cessation of all that is Real - and the meaningless juxtaposition that a belief in the necessity of fear engenders in a state of awareness that seems so reductatory of reality and so deterministically definite, as if that which is fear is justified by its own presentations of what must be possible, if not likely or even eminent. Think for a moment of all that you have been afraid might occur. Place in one imagined pile all of the fears of destruction, loss, separation, abandonment, misgivings and distrust alike, all accumulated and gathered up so that they might be measured and evaluated. Place in another mental heap all of your memories of what you thought might “go wrong” and then actually did. Are these two stacks of equal height? Are they even necessarily comparable at all? Did one justify the other? Was there some value that you gained from considering all that could be “wrong” and preparing yourself endlessly for its possible arrival, a potentiality that was given life not through its actual probability of occurrence, but rather because you desired to contemplate all of its implications far in advance of even the barest smidgen of an inkling of their appearance, as if you can accurately prepare for that which might never come to pass? Certainly from any state of reasonableness, there must arise in your contemplative mind the realization that preparing for disaster in no way eliminates the possibility that it will actually occur. If there is no benefit to increasing your awareness of all that can transpire that you do not wish to see manifested in form, then why are you engaging with such thoughts at all? What is that, save for a distractive framework that removes you from the present moment, instead plunging you headlong into a systematic affrontery to your own sanctity of sanity and rationality, allowing you to even be able to experience what it might be to become emotionally invested in just such a calamity, when it is likely much less probable than your ego would wish for you to believe? Instead of imagining the worst, accept that while it is a remote possibility, and that if it arrives, you will encounter its difficulties and then transcend them - perhaps not with ease, for certainly some occurrences are strikingly tumultuous when they first become manifest in your life, but rather with strength because you are already possessed of all of the fortitude and grace that you will ever require to sustain even the most challenging of situations, moving through them all with certainty, for your heart knows of your potent power, even if your mind does not, primarily because it is so beset by the lies of the ego and distracted by the imaginings of difficulties that must be simply “too much” that it seems as though you will be shorn of all dignity and cast aside by life, a forgotten and forlorn Child of God who is so beleaguered that they will eventually lose all desire to continue at all. That is not your fate, for there is nothing to be Remembered or learned when one decides to relinquish all of their power to press forward through adversity, becoming ever more cognizant of their own ability to face impossibilities and still arise, again and yet again, always more determined to progress through that which is challenging so that ever greater levels of perseverance can be realized and then implemented when yet another trial of circumstance becomes present. Fear paralyzes your potentiality by assigning to you the mantle of weakness and meagerness, as if you are somehow a victim of all that might transpire, and so you would be best advised to never try at all, for failure lurks at every turn and there is but the certainty of abject impossibility that greets all who attempt to move beyond the seemingly restrictive pronouncements of the ego, for what is there to fear except for the ability that you do indeed possess to simply never try at all, for to be exactly as you are surely must better than to attempt that which seems very difficult indeed, for if failure is your primary motivation, then success will remain forever out of reach. Not because it is not possible, but because you have elected to believe that it is not attainable, and so you will not even attempt such a quest for release from divided and constrictive patterns of contemplation that achieve nothing and require such vast investures of time and energy, all of which could be better expended by simply imagining what could be, rather than that which you desire to never accost you at all. Fear is as this - a belief in rote patterns of vulnerability that have a reflection in form, for certainly you can be assaulted and even physically killed, but never will your physical demise be concomitant with the destruction of your awareness, for that would imply an error in Creation, and such presumptions are of the ego - never of God. Fear relegates to the darkest corners of your mind the brightest of Lights, the Certainty that the Song of God is a melody that you already do know, and a level of alignment with the Source of All Creation that is eternally accessible to you, no matter how much time you have previously invested in believing that you could possibly be anything less that the Perfection that you were Created to be. Listen to the discordant screams of the ego and you will hear but the litany of reasons why the ego believes itself to be all that could be of any use to you at all. But it will always be wrong. There is another way, and it is a path of Faith that encounters all that arises with a level of surety that is not replicable in the mind or reflected in the distractive matrix that is a loyalty given freely to that which never was, for there is a certain Experience of Faith that goes far beyond all that is rational. It is a process by which all that is of form is relegated to its proper location in your structure of priorities and preferences, allowing fear to be seen for what it is - a desperate attempt on the part of the ego to lure you away from your own heart, not for your actual benefit at all, but rather to allow the ego to syphon off ever greater amounts of your own will, so that you will become increasingly invested in what the ego utters, rather than simply listening to your own heart and allowing all that is of form to unfold as it will, for little is within your own ambit, and so that which is are the only aspects of materiality that deserve contemplation at all. The ego wants nothing of this. It requires your participation for its own sustainment. The ego would not exist if you did not believe that it was both real and necessary. And yet it does not and is not. Such simplicity of undoing all that is of illusion is contained within just that realization - the ego is nothing because Love is All that is Real. All of that undoes all that came before, forgiving all error, rendering mute all protestations and unbinding all fears of impossibilities and unforeseen eventualities, for with Love as your companion and certainty of return, what is there to be invested within from the perspective of an ego that is nothing that has ever been Real? God Sings to you of all that is possible, including your eternal Salvation from misperception. Do you as of yet wish to hear? For the melodic structure is Complete and the chorus grows ever stronger with each voice that is added. Are you ready to join with God in celebration of the Glory of Love? All that is to be relinquished is all that never was. All that is to be Remembered is All That Is. No bargain at all is this, for there is no barter between that which is nonexistent and the Light that illuminates all of the Truth that you have forever sought out as being some formulation of reality that must exist outside of yourself. All that you require is in your heart. Look there, and you will know why it is that all that is internal is never differentiated from all that appears to be outside of you, within the Sight of God.