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The end of fear: conscious living, conscious dying.

With Dale Borglum recorded on March 19, 2017.

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Until we are free there is a fundamental fear of the spaciousness that is our true nature. Can we become intimately familiar with the urge to run away from the love, the spaciousness, that is the essence of this moment? All fear is fear of death, fear based on our identification only with that which is separate. Being with our fear of death, we learn to bear the light.

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