RE: Card Reading: Daily Reminder -The presence of Love will always cast out fear."
Yes, love is a choice, but is that statement really comprehensible ? Yes you can't fight it, you can't out smart it, you can't out run it.
I do not believe that fear can be cast out or even risen above it for that is a stance of resistance or rejection of what is actually occurring.
I believe that the choice of love is made through a process of recognition. By pausing judgement on the fear and looking at the fear for what it is. Stepping back and seeing it's true nature and origin. Fear can only exist within separation consciousness. Fear is felt when you do not feel you are supported, when you doubt that you are protected and when you believe in the story being told. The subconscious patterns must come to the surface and be seen for what they are.
See the inner child who feels that they are not supported, who doubts, who believes in the lie that they are unworthy or undeserving, that they are not divine, or that they are sinners that deserve suffering. See the reactions of the inner child, and see and recognise their divine justification for fear. Then once the source of the fear is seen you can then embrace it, and have compassion and love for the child. Fear is born of isolated children who have forgotten that they are loved and protected. You can provide this love for yourself and be the source of love. Then fear simply fades away and love arises.
That is the choice, the choice to see things for what they are and have compassion for fear is the fear of the innocent, your inner innocence. As far as I'm concerned fear must be embraced and loved and recognised, not cast out, not rejected, not pushed to the side. Oh the poor child, share in their suffering by embracing it in compassion and love. Love arises and fear is appeased and is thus transmuted into the light of your heart. That is how love casts out fear.
I see what you are saying, I think. I agree we need to see fear for what it is, and embrace it at times, often it can point us in a better direction and can explain a lot of pain we endure throughout our lives. It can help us identify pain points and help us heal.
But I believe the compassion needs to be emphasized on the person for simply choosing ego over love, not knowing any better. Not compassion for the actual fear.
The fear are scenarios that the ego made up that aren't real to begin with.
The way in which I explain it in this post is more about the choice of the perception you choose. Kind of like, negative vs positive. If we are out seeking problems, we will find probelms, if we are seeking peace, we will find peace.
So giving into the fear VS perceiving life with the lens of Love, the obvious choice should be Love. Which in turn, rises above anything else. It may not mean the fear dies, or it never comes back, but its casts it out of your view/focus/attention.
The above statement I believe is a process of choosing love. When you can step back and see it from another perspective(that perspective being Love) When you can witness it, it no longer is the lens in which you're seeing it from.
I appreciate you bringing this up, I love diving deeper into things and hearing others perspectives... I tried my best to explain what I meant by it in this post. I think we are on the same page though ;)
Yes, you're right, I think we are on the same page. Sometimes it's hard to put into words something we feel or sense intuitively. It can be tricky or subtle and not obvious to catch what is really going on, the mind often just takes over with generalities.
For me it can be so difficult to understand or see clearly sometimes, that I just shift into the perspective of feeling without over thinking. I focus on the feeling of fear and try and sense backwards from there to it's source or original story. Often the source of the fear is just not see-able, it's just a general sense of unease, and so I just try and let go of trying to resist it and just let it be and try to have compassion all around for what is occurring. That helps at least with the resistance which kinda produces a secondary or compounding suffering.
I agree, it is hard to put feeling in to words sometimes, for sure. These are some deep topics discussed and I think we all have a subtly different way of how we perceive things or how we imagine it. Which would explain a lot of why so many teaching over the history of time are never fully understood or leaving too much up for debate.
But I agree with following the feeling. Our own intuition and what feels right for us is what is important in the end.
I enjoyed having this discussion with you :)