DESIRE AND FEAR

Everyone desires to be healthy, wealthy and happy. But this desire is just one side of a two-sided coin. What is the other side? These desires are usually connected to everyone's fears. What are these fears? Everyone is secretly afraid to be ill, poor and miserable.

Fear and desire are related. Is there much difference between "I desire to be healthy." and "I am afraid to be ill or I desire not to be ill." Not much!

The Truth is that all these desires and fears have their roots in our false identity. As long as we believe that we are our thoughts, emotions, memories, likes and dislikes, we will have these desires and fears. This is what is meant by eating from the tree of Good and evil. If we want to free ourselves from these desires and fears, and eat from the tree of life, we must reconnect with our true identity, which is I Am Awareness. Awareness is beyond, thoughts, emotions, desires, fears, doubts, likes and dislikes.  I AM Awareness is perfect Peace.

How do we do it? We surrender to the Present Moment. God is Omniscience, Omnispresence and Omnipotence. He knows what we desire and he has the infinite power to provide it for us at every moment. So the best thing to do is to relax in the Present Moment and let God take care of our life.

As long as we remain in our false identity, our life will be like a roller-coaster or seesaw and we will alternate between desire and fear. If we wish to get off this roller coaster, we must be Aware in the Now and surrender to the Divine Will. 

The two sides of the seesaw are desire and fear. As long as we sit at the extremeties we will be experiencing ups and downs. If we wish to reach a state of peace, we must move to the center and be aware of the Present in I AM Awareness.