Fear is not real
Episode description
Fear is perhaps the most predominant emotion we experience. Much of our lives are spent either avoiding fear or striving toward goals we believe will reduce fear.
If we honestly assess our daily motivations and thoughts, we’ll discover that fear plays a central role in much of our physical and mental activity.
But it doesn’t exist. As A Course in Miracles so powerfully states, “Fear is not real.” We made it up, as a means to prove that we are unique, autonomous selves and that we can suffer.
Yet while we believe fear is real and substantial, it won’t help us at all to simply pretend that it doesn’t exist. The most helpful thing we can do is recognize that we are indeed choosing fear, that it doesn’t feel very good, and that there must be another way of looking at this.
That “little willingness” to see our lives from a different perspective is the opening of the doorway to peace.