Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. It means simply to let the feeling be there and to focus on
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“Understanding Is the Key How can fear be mastered, or eliminated altogether? Fear cannot be eliminated altogether, it cannot be mastered, it can only be understood. Understanding is the key word here. And only understanding brings mutation, nothing else. If you try to master your fear it will remain repressed, it will go deep into you. It will not help, it will complicate things. It is surfacing, you can repress it—that’s what mastery is. You can repress it; you can repress it so deeply that it disappears from your consciousness completely. Then you will never be aware of it, but it will be there in the basement, and it will have a pull. It will manage, it will manipulate you, but it will manipulate you in such an indirect way that you will not become aware of it. But then the danger has gone deeper. Now you cannot even understand it. So fear has not to be mastered—it has not to be eliminated. It cannot be eliminated either, because fear contains a kind of energy and no energy can be destroyed. Have you seen that in fear you can have immense energy? Just as you can have in anger; they are both two aspects of the same energy phenomenon. Anger is aggressive and fear is nonaggressive. Fear is anger in a negative state; anger is fear in a positive state. When you are angry have you not watched how powerful you become, how great an energy you have? You can throw a big rock when you are angry; ordinarily you cannot even shake it. You become thrice, four times bigger when you are angry. You can do certain things you cannot do without anger. Or, in fear, you”
― Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life
― Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life
“And live in total freedom so intensely that every moment is transformed into eternity. If you live a moment intensely it is transformed into eternity.”
― Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life
― Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life
“Seeker: So when you’re in a relationship, that’s a commitment too. The family and children come first. You have spoken about commitment, and how people should be committed. So why doesn’t this hold true on the path of spirituality? When it comes to spirituality, doesn’t it seem like you’re abandoning your family and walking away from social structures just to pursue your spiritual interest? Sadhguru: For your spiritual path, there is no need to walk out of anything. It’s just that, when the family structure is made in such a way that it doesn’t allow for any other possibility except for breeding and brooding, then it becomes a breaking point; not otherwise. In what way is spirituality breaking up any family? The family breaks up because of its own intolerance, because of its own immaturity, because of its own limitations that people are trying to set upon each other; not for any other reason, not because of spirituality. Seeker:”
― Mystic's Musings
― Mystic's Musings
“When people are calculating how much to give, and how much to hold back – like Jesus said, “You can’t serve me and Mammon at the same time.” When Jesus used the word ‘Mammon,’ he used it to be almost synonymous with pleasure. So Jesus said, “You can’t serve me and Mammon at the same time. If you want to be my disciple, you have to leave Mammon.” If you’re seeking comfort – it’s not that you shouldn’t be comfortable; it’s not about having comfort or not, but if you’re seeking comfort, forget it. This path is definitely not yours. What he said is very true. The”
― Mystic's Musings
― Mystic's Musings
“The fear of death is fear of time, and the fear of time is, deeply, the fear of unlived moments, an unlived life.”
― Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life
― Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life
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