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No one attacks without intent to hurt. This can have no exception. When you think that you attack in self-defense, you mean that to be cruel is protection; you are safe because of cruelty. You mean that you believe to hurt another brings you freedom. And you mean that to attack is to exchange the state in which you are for something better, safer, more secure from dangerous invasion and from fear.
How thoroughly insane is the idea that to defend from fear is to attack! For here is fear begot and fed with blood, to make it grow and swell and rage. And thus is fear protected, not escaped. Today we learn a lesson which can save you more delay and needless misery than you can possibly imagine. It is this:
It is always initially astonishing to a newly awakened Master to discover that the manner in which he thinks has undergone a radical transformation. His former limited consciousness construct finally had nothing to do with the complete exposé. He stands naked with his own certainty. He has lost the capacity for specific comparison. The wholeness of his thinking inevitably makes the objective rationale of limited consciousness seem absurd. He is thrust into the position of seeing that his former value system, based on specific conclusions arrived at by comparison and analysis, has no validity or even reality. He finds himself in an illogical, unreasonable place. He must now deal with his absolute, unqualified certainty that the objectively constructed world is totally meaningless, except to the necessity of bringing about the revelation that established his own transcending consciousness. |