The End of Fear
The End of Fear: Vulnerability As a Spiritual Path for Realists (2nd edition 2022)
A need for real answers
The need for real answers has grown exponentially with the awareness of the real problems we are facing in our social, political, health and environmental worlds. This search is especially active and even urgent in our adolescents and young adults who can view life globally more than any generation before them.
All photos by A.G. Brosnan
Sensitive ones are those who are so highly attuned to the inherent,
inevitable fact of change and loss in this world.
It is understandable, and moving, that we wish for someone in our life who can help us with our fear, uncertainty, and unhappiness…. But how can it truly work when what you are hoping for from me is what I am hoping for from you?
Our vulnerable reality, just as it is, with no magical solutions or illusory protections, opens the door to a deeper part of our mind where boundaries dissolve and a unifying love rules. This is the mind in oneness.
Love without conditions is love that arises from the simple fact of
being part of creation and alive in the world.
What you can know for certain is that, as a created being, you are inseparably bonded to creation; you always have been and always will be. There never was a time and there never will be a time when you are not part of creation. This unbreakable bond is your oneness with all of life.
The discovery takes something away but puts nothing new in its place, and so it sets in motion the search for something new, something more.
Once you've accepted that you are part of life and a full participant in its cycle of birth and death, you need a perspective to help you make sense of it.
Any experience in which you cross over from your usual separate self into a sense of connection with others or with nature has some taste of oneness in it, and the emotion of this oneness is love.