| BkI:16.IV.3 | Release your insane attachment to pain, to which you remain bound by your love of emotions, to which you are attracted by your desire to judge, to which you are bound by the desire to make creation, including yourself, different from what it is and what you are. Do not forget that fear is an emotion. It does not come from the heart of being. The soul does not feel emotions. No emotion reaches the center of your being. As we have said, emotions are fires of artifice. Emotions are a vital force separate from being. Returning that vital force to your being is your function. You do it by making yourself aware of them and embracing them in love so that you can transmute that energy into more conscious being—all of which is achieved when you decide not to judge anything. In this way you achieve equanimity and recognize what it is: the reality of love, and therefore of your being. |