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FEAR

My heart is made for loving!

My fear is made for accepting!

Know-ledge comes from

Accepting my Fear!

To the "One" I Love,

If fear, no matter how large or small, is Life as my teacher's way of teaching me to learn, understand, and then accept myself---then what is fear to me? Fear to me is life as my teacher giving me information that I need to learn, understand, and accept about me. Sometimes Life's information (fear) is easier to accept than others. Certain situations are easier because I have already learned and accepted parts of the situation from previous experiences. Sometimes if there was too much information (fear) in a situation I don't understand or accept, I want the situation to be different, and I feel it in my heart. At this point I accept as much as I can. Then I react in the best way I Know at the time to protect myself from the pain, suffering, and sadness I feel in my heart.

I find that the more I accept the fear or information that life has to offer, the more I KNOW about myself, and the more I find ways to express how I really feel. The more I express how I really feel in a way I can accept, the more I have the opportunity to learn, grow, and change with Life. The more I learn, grow, and change with Life, the more I am happy; and all I really want out of my life is to be happy!

I know that in a world of right or wrong I can not live without fear, but I can learn the truth by accepting my fear with love. My heart is made for loving, my fear is made for accepting. If life as my teacher KNOWS the Truth, by accepting all that it has to offer, whether it be right or wrong, success or failure, rich or poor, East or West, Life or Death... it will make whatever the truth is in-between easier to accept.

Knowledge comes from accepting my fear.

The truth for one may
not be the truth for another,

but the truth for both lies in the

acceptance of each other.

Do I want to be right or wrong or

do I want to accept the truth.

The more I accept the truth of what my life as my teacher already knows, the more I am happy, and all I really want is to be happy!

I know that there are many Ways of living life that make it easier to accept the fear I face every day. I am learning, understanding, and accepting many of these ways, and I look forward to learning, understanding, and accepting so many more.

There was a Way that I was taught as a child of how to accept my fear, and I have lived this Way most of my life. I was taught how to accept my thoughts so that I can bodily know before my thinking. In this practice of observing and accepting my thoughts I notice that if I want them to be different, I feel it in my heart. If I want them to be different, it means that I have not accepted them yet. At the same time I was taught to accept my thoughts so that I could bodily know before my thinking, I was also taught how to accept my fear so I could rest my heart in not-wanting. This helps me to have a complete loving acceptance of whatever I am facing.

I know through my experiences that if I am to become better at something I will have to work at it through consistent daily practice. I now practice 15 minutes to a half hour 5 to 6 days a week. I know that as I practice I will get better at it, and I continue to take this form of acceptance into my everyday life and accept my fear with all of my love.

The more I accept my fear with love, the easier it gets. The more fear I accept, the more I know about myself---the more I find ways to express how I really feel. The more I express how I really feel in ways that I can accept, the more I have the opportunity to learn, grow, and change with Life. The more I accept about my life, the more I learn, grow, and change with It. The more I learn, grow, and change with Life, the more I am happy; and all I want out of my life is to be happy! The bonus to making my life easier and happier, by accepting my fear with love, is that I am accepting my fear of Life. This only makes me happier because it feels like I am doing my part in accepting life----giving life the opportunity to change!

Do I want to be right or wrong? or
Do I want to accept the truth!

When I accept something,

it provides me an opportunity to change.

I want to live with love not fear.

Truth lies in the acceptance of each other.

Love, Dawn Shining Eyes

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UUNCONDITIONAL LOVE

Acceptance is unconditional Love!

Do I Fear that which I seek?

To feel Unconditional Love

I must Unconditionally Love.

The Path to Unconditional Love is to
Love.

Accepting

(Unconditionally Loving)

My
Fear
with
Love.

To the "One" I Love,

I want to thank you for all the lessons (fear) I have learned (accepted) since my last writings. The more I learn (accept) about myself the more I am finding that I am learning (accepting) something I once Knew Or felt. When I was younger I Knew and felt what Unconditional Love is.

As I was living my life I started getting so much information (fear) I couldn’t understand(accept), I reacted in ways I best knew at the time to stop the pain, suffering, and sadness I felt in my heart. The more reactions I learn to stop or ignore the fear I feel, the further I grow from Unconditional Love.

When I find that it is Unconditional Love that I am looking for, I continue on my path and Accept my Fear with Love.

I Know that if I completely Accept something or someone, this is Unconditional Love, and to feel Unconditional Love I must unconditionally Love. Acceptance is Unconditional Love, and Truth lies in the Acceptance of each other.

With all the Fear that’s in the world, where do I start Accepting? I start by accepting where I am at in my life, Mentally, Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually. By Accepting or Unconditionally Loving myself in these four areas I create a balance and a base at which I can learn, grow, and change with life. The more I learn, grow, and change in these areas; the more I find ways to express how I really feel; and the more I have the opportunity to learn, grow, and change with life. When I Accept or unconditionally Love myself in these four areas, I am ready to share my Unconditionally love with someone else.

The path to Unconditional Love is to Love...

I start by Accepting my Fear with Love.

Acceptance is Unconditional Love

and Truth lies in the Acceptance of each other.

If it is Unconditional Love
that I Want
does it matter how

I’m taught to Accept
my Fear of it.

When I want something to be different
it means I don’t understand
So a wanting heart means

I don’t understand.

“I only fear what I don’t understand.”

So a wanting heart means I am afraid.

Thinking is one of my reactions to fear.

So a wanting heart causes me to think.

To be Human is to be afraid.

To be Human is to want or think.

To be me is to Unconditionally Love.

My Humanity teaches me to

Learn, Understand, and Accept

Me as Unconditional Love.

Unconditional Love is taught in many Ways, in many cultures, from East to West. Growing up, two Ways that I was mostly taught, amongst others, were Judeo-Christian and Buddhism.

In a quote from the Old Testament, Exodus 20:20-21, it is written: Moses Said to the people, “Do not be afraid [misunderstand] for God has come only to test [teach] you and to put the fear [thought or information] of him upon you so that you do not sin [miss the mark]. Then the people stood at a distance while Moses drew near the thick darkness [no thought or fear] where God [unconditional love] was. "

The New Testament teaches us about God through the example of Jesus Christ. Jesus himself is an example of Unconditional Love. The definition of sin is to miss the mark. The mark is Jesus Christ as our example, and Jesus is an example of Unconditional Love.

In one of the important scriptures of Buddhism known as the Heart Sutra (Heart Teachings) it is written: ...The Bodhisattva [Enlightened Being, Soul, Spirit, Buddha Nature] lives prajna paramita [original compassion-wisdom or Unconditional Love] with no hindrance in the mind [no Thought], no hindrance, therefore no fear exists. Far beyond deluded thoughts [fear], this

is Nirvana [a world of Unconditional Love]. All past, present, and future Buddhas [people who accept Fear with Love] live prajna paramita [original compassion- wisdom or Unconditional Love] and therefore attain Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi [Enlightenment or Unconditional Love].

I know that in world of right and wrong, that started from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, I can not live without fear; but I can learn (accept) the Truth by Accepting my Fear with Love.

Love, Dawn Shinning Eyes

Acceptance is Unconditional Love

and Truth lies in Acceptance of each other.

Do I Fear that which I seek?

To feel Unconditional Love I must Unconditionally Love.

The Path to Unconditional Love is to
Love.

To help the process of accepting a situation in life, I think about extremes in Life, like right and wrong, success and failure, rich and poor, East and West, Life and Death.... By accepting extremes it seems to make whatever happens in-between a lot easier to accept. In fact it helps me even more because I learn everything of what life has to offer in any one situation. This is great, and it helps me out in a lot of situations when I have the time to think about it.

Sometimes when life gives me too much to think about I do something to stop my thinking. When a situation in Life gives me too much to think about all at once, I react in a way so as not to think about it, learn it, understand it, and accept it. I find, however, that it is O.K. if I miss the lesson, for Life as my teacher always gives me another chance. No matter how many times it takes to learn, understand, and accept the situation or lesson, Life as my teacher is very understanding, compassionate, and patient. Life continually gives me the lesson until I make the time to learn, understand, and accept it.

Sometimes I have so many lessons that I can not stop thinking. At this point I start looking at what thinking is to me. Why am I thinking? I want to explain what is happening to me in a way that I can understand and then accept. If I can accept what is happening, I can give the opportunity to change it or just feel more at ease with it. Sometimes it feels like I don't have enough information to understand; but I know if I had the opportunity or time to figure it out, I can eventually understand. This creates more thinking, but teaches me that I am thinking only so that I can understand something.

I realize that if I want to learn, understand and then accept something, I have to think about it. This brings up an interesting point for me because I have always heard that "We Only Fear what we don't Understand!". I have come to the understanding that thinking is one of my reactions to fear, no matter how large or small the fear is. In learning this about myself I want so much for my life to be different, because this means that I am living most of my life with fear, and what I really want is to live my life with love not fear! I know that I only want my life to be different because I don't understand it, and it is making me think too much.

I stopped thinking so much and started asking questions about how other people live their life and how they understand it so they can accept it. In the process I have made many friends, all who I love very Much--friends that have found ways to live in a world of right and wrong. Because I have many different friends that I care about, I don't want any one of them to be right or wrong. I only want to learn the truth! So the more I learn about each one of my friends, the more I understand them and the more I accept who they are. The more I accept who they are, the more I find they are saying the same things, just in different words. They are all describing life in a way so that they can accept it.

The more ways I learn, understand and accept how others describe life, the more I know how I want to express myself so I can describe life in a way I can accept.

The more about life I accept inside myself, the more opportunity there is for change. Just because I accept something doesn't mean it is right or wrong--it just means that I accept it. I look forward to accepting so much more!

The truth for one may not be the truth for another, but the truth for both
lies in the acceptance of each other.

If life is accepting, why do I not accept it?

I only fear what I don't accept.

Do I want to be right or wrong? or
Do I want to accept the truth!

When I want something to be different, I feel it in my heart.

When I want something to be different, it means I do not accept it.

When I accept something, it provides an opportunity for change.

When I do not accept something, it makes me afraid.

I feel there is so much to be afraid of.

I want to live with love not fear!

Love, Dawn Shining Eyes

Thank You for Giving me the Opportunity to Share my Process.