RVRS MRCY: April 2020

Aldous Huxley:

"Fear cannot be got rid of by personal effort, but only by the ego's absorption in a cause greater than it's own interests. Absorption in any case will rid the mind of some of its fears; but only absorption in the loving and knowing of the divine Ground can rid it of ALL fear. For when the cause is less than the highest, the sense of fear and anxiety is transferred from the self to the cause - as when heroic self-sacrifice for a loved individual is accompanied by anxiety in regard to that for which the sacrifice is made. Whereas if the sacrifice is made for God, and for others for God's sake, there can be no fear or abiding anxiety, since nothing can be a menace to the divine Ground, and even failure and disaster are to be accepted as being in accord with the divine will."