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Our Basic Dilemma |
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I believe there may be a useful generalization of the terms of the human dilemma: Fear, in its diverse forms, subtle or overt, is the sole agent of personal tension; which is the single barrier to the ecstasy constantly default to our nervous system, the beauty we may ever perceive in every experience, and the love which is our embrace of such.... Fear is the only limit to our enjoyment and love. Therefore, courage is the key.
Fear is the path of the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.YODA
The Phantom Menace
I acknowledge that this idea must continue to be tested by the varieties of
circumstance, including injury, disease, iniquity and death, but while I can keep it
in mind, it has absolute effect for me. Of course people and perceptions don't tend to be
so simple, especially owing to their attachments. How can anyone afford
to be simple? How to root out fear? Where does one get courage? By skill?
Science? Wisdom? Initiation?
By fear, I do not mean the emotion only, but a fragmentation or conflict of consciousness, the resolution of which is courage. Obviously, this integration or resolution of consciousness or of "self" is the exact aim of much philosophy and mysticism. It is unitive consciousness--a concentration or one-pointedness of mind.
The secret of life is concentration.ALEISTER CROWLEY
Confessions