Question: How do we not fear each other?
Answer: The question that you have asked is a good first question, and I want to take you deeper than your question in order to give you the answer that you seek, for your question is truly deeper than the words you have used.
You ask, “How do we not fear each other?” But in that question you have put an idea of “each other.” Of course, where ever there is an idea of “other”, there is fear, because “other” is not truthful or natural. Therefore, the idea must engender fear.
Your true question has nothing to do with each other, although you experience an “each other” and you project your fears and judgments there. “Each other” is truly nonsense, and this is what you know and want to see.
So your true question is not ‘how do we not fear each other.’ Your true question is, “How do we not fear?”
Do you see how that is a better question? Do you see how that is truly the answer you seek together as one? It is not each other that you fear. It is fear itself that seems to be the issue. It is fear itself that keeps you paralyzed and afraid of being you. So let’s dive below the surface of your seeming question and look at the meat of what you truly want to know:
How do we stop listening to our ideas of fear?
Fear is an addiction, which we have already touched upon. An addiction is nothing but a habit, as I have told you before. All habits take focus to change, which means you cannot be lazy if you want to change a habit. In laziness, habit is maintained. This is why I have told you that the habit of fear is lazy.
In your realm of experience, two can be better than one, and this is why you have come together. You have come together because you are aware of this advantage and you want this help that you have made available to yourself. You want this partnership. You feel these words deeply, because you recognize this is the path you have chosen together.
When you look at each other, recognize you have chosen each other as helpfulness in reaching your truest of desires, and that ‘truest of desire’ is to let go of fear. You have made this choice because you know that fear is the only true obstacle to love, and so above all else you want to let go of fear. Therefore, because you have decided it will be this way, you shall let go of all fear through partnership. It will be helpful if you see this as already done, even as you seem to walk through the experience of letting it go.
When you look at each other, you can remember that the one your eyes rest upon is your symbol of ‘no fear,’ which is love. You can remember that you have chosen each other because you want the same thing. You can remember that you do not look upon the one who wants to judge you. When your eyes look upon each other, you are looking upon yourself, so you are looking upon the one that is the reflection of your desire to be free of fear…the one who wants this freedom the same as you. And you look upon the one who has come to you in this exact form in order to help you…in order to enable you to do exactly what you have come to do. You look upon the one you have chosen to join with you in letting go of fear.
And so you ask, “How do we let go of our ideas of fear?” And I answer you in complete joy when I say:
By looking upon one another
and remembering your purpose together,
you do much more than you imagine
in the process of letting go of all ideas of fear.
This is your first step.