Beneath Desire is Fear (Part 3)

Are you ready to stop punishing yourself with thoughts of lack in your life? You don't have to give up your desires to discover the Law of Abundance operating flawlessly in your life. You only have to give up your sleep, the sleep to what is, the sleep that fosters belief in your dreams about lack. Those dreams alone keep you from seeing your way into abundance, into all you want to discover your life to be.

To wake up, just pay attention to your thoughts and your feelings. When you notice a desire, look at it until you see the fear lying beneath it. Then look at the fear until you see the dream, the illusion, the imaginary condition your fear keeps you in. When you see that, you will be free, because you will see the reality beneath it, the open door to your fulfillment.

Your fulfillment lies in wait for you. Give up your fight against reality. When you come up against a closed door, just turn around and look for the open door. Sometimes, all it takes to be free is letting go, letting go of your attachment to what is not, so that you can receive, embraced and be blessed by all that is.

It also pays to look at your sadness. Sadness is another mask of fear. You feel sad because of a lack that you perceive. Many of us, if not most of us, feel sad habitually. We have grown so habitually accustomed to sorrow that we know of no other way to live. The joy we knew briefly in childhood has been lost to us.

In childhood, we knew no fear. We expected all to work out because we could recall no disappointment. But as the disappointments accumulated, our trust in life dwindled. We lost touch with the joy of living in the Law of Abundance.

You can return to that pristine state of trust and joy by examining your sadness. Continue looking at it until you clearly see what it is over. What you see what you are feeling sad over, the condition of your sorrow will be over. You will realize that you are feeling sorry for yourself out of some kind of addiction to living in a dream of something lost. You want something or someone to relieve you of your sorrow but you hold onto it more and more strongly when you try to overcome it.

You cannot overcome sorrow. Let it overcome you. Let it be. Examine its presence. Look and look until you see what you feel so sad about. Do you feel sad over all of the suffering that goes on in the world? Turn your sorrow into a great love for the world, and it becomes joy.

If you look long enough for what it is that you really feel so sad about, you feel your sadness lifting. It is as if the act of internally directed attention in and of itself fills the heart with joy.

Do you feel sorrow because you must age and die? Fear not, for you will not leave here until all your work is done - unless you worry yourself into an early grave, which you do in your imagination when you fret over this.

Do you resist illness or infirmity? That condition arrives to slow you down, or to stop you, that you might live in a deeper peace, with deeper trust in what lies beyond your control, that you might know more of the ever-present goodness that backs you up.

You desire to live with those you love always. Your love is strong enough to support them always. Your intention for their good is permanent; your deep abiding faith in them the faith they need to be always content.

You worry that you have not been a good enough parent or friend, mate or man or woman? That fear presupposes all opportunity into the past. You are as good as you long to be without that fearful imagining.

The Law of Abundance is ever-present. Your path to all you desire in the now.