The So, Good morning. God morning to you. It's not happiness and peace that comes and goes. It's sickness, suffering and confusion that comes and goes.

She says many people mistakenly think peace and happiness comes and goes.

They have a brief experience of peace or joy, and then they think they lost it.

Happiness and peace is your permanent nature.

It never changes.

It does not fade or dim or go away.

What goes away is your attention on your true nature and when you do that other things arise like sickness, doubt, worry, anger, overwhelm, like fear, that's what comes and goes.

Fear is a big one, a very loud visitor that comes and goes.

A listener wrote in recently.

She said, I love to hear more about how exactly to replace fear with love,

like when being faced with seemingly impossible situations in life.

I can come to terms with seeing God, love, in the difficult people, but when facing fear I'm stumped.

And the Upanishads were taught, the Upanishads are the ancient spiritual

texts from India. We're taught that fear comes when there is a second, when a second is perceived, when you see two or

there's only one. So when you spiritually translate a difficult person back into God, back into love, knowing what's actually there,

knowing that it's God dressed up. You've gone from two to one. You've gone from you and an other to just love being there, not a

you perceiving that other as God dressed up, leaving yourself out of the equation, but knowing yourself as that love

too, knowing only love is here.

And so you have to do the same with the emotion of fear.

I'd say it manifests where you are as a pounding heart,

a sense of doom, maybe a pit in your stomach or not in your throat.

Whatever those sensations,

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