Fear comes, but fear passes.

What's dying is the frightened mind, so the love inside us can get a chance to breathe.

And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined. That is not to say they don't exist for us as human beings. They do. But our fear is not our ultimate reality, and it does not replace the truth of who we really are. Our love, which is our real self, doesn't die, but merely goes underground.

Our deepest fears is not that we are inadequate, . . .

A certain amount of desperation is usually necessary before we're ready for God.

Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self

Similarly, if we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

we're going to set any goal, let us set the goal of being healed of the belief that God is fear instead of love

The Course teaches that fear is literally a bad dream. It is as though the mind has been split in two; one part stays in touch with love, and the other part veers into fear. Fear manufactures a kind of parallel universe where the unreal seems real

Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

A moment of crisis can be a moment of growth, as the wounded self prepares to transform. From the chrysalis of my pain, I will forge my healing—the wings of my newborn self.

We cannot save the world without God's help, but He can't save the world without ours. We need His love; He needs our hands and feet. Today I give Him mine.