How Can I Overcome the Fear of Commitment?
Quantum Immersion Retreat: Sunday’s Session—How Can I Overcome the Fear of Commitment?
Many themes and topics are included in this talk: bringing illusions to the truth, manifesting, commitment, special relationship, and how the spiritual community is for mind expansion opportunities!
Gold Nugget:
“So we have to start to realize that the fear of commitment is the fear of losing control, the fear of annihilation, the fear of surrender, the ego’s fear of just being gone! That’s the fear of commitment. And I think, for me, to the depth that you can commit to spiritual awakening, to following Spirit to the depth that you can go with that commitment, then to that depth, all things will be taken care of, all questions will evaporate, and everything will be actually easy to the depth of the commitment!
I always think of all the passages in the Course, but the one that just is indelible in my mind, because I was so afraid of traveling. And how will I survive? And where will I go? And who will I meet, and will I die out there on the road? And all those things. You know, the part of the Course, you know, in the Bible, it was, look at the lilies of the field, they neither spin nor toil, and even Solomon is not clothed, like they are seeking first the Kingdom of Heaven, and all else shall be added unto you. You know, put God first. And in the Course, the section is very famous, ‘Once you accept His plan as the one function that you would fulfill, there will be nothing else the Holy Spirit will not arrange for you.’ T-20.IV.8:4”
Recorded at the Quantum Immersion Five-Day Retreat on May 27, 2018 at Casa Quantico in San Antonio Tlayacapan, Mexico
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