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Fear about our lives in this world arises in us instinctively and uncontrollably. In relation to spirituality, we do not remove fear, but we redirect it to be specifically a spiritual fear.
What does “spiritual fear” mean? Spirituality means bestowal and love, i.e., a state where we acquire the spiritual qualities of bestowal and love that are similar in form to the upper force, which is a force of bestowal and love. Therefore, spiritual fear is one of not bestowing and loving as the very force of bestowal and love itself.
Therefore, we do not remove fear spiritually, but we can achieve such a redirection of fear in order to fear in a spiritual way, and not merely fear for the sake of our corporeal lives in our world.
In the same token, those advancing on the spiritual path are not powerless before this world’s fear. When we start progressing spiritually, we receive very strange fears through which we can understand that they are not real fears, but a game.
We feel such fears from above, as if projected onto us by a beam, and all that is left for us to do with them is to rise above them in a manner of bestowal.
If we are truly in bestowal, we have nothing to fear. We can calmly close our eyes to the fears that emerge solely in order to force us to rise above self-concern, and to teach us to live in the yearning toward bestowal.
These are not simply animalistic and unconscious fears, but instead a state that we perceive consciously, with a certain illumination from the source, that our feelings become projected to us from a certain source with a purpose to progress us. Therefore, we understand that nothing can take place purposelessly, and no fears arise for no reason.
Based on the Daily Kabbalah Lesson with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on August 17, 2010. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.