Fear is this emptiness which is in each one of us, and we try to fill it with innumerable recipes for God, good works, divine knowledge, worldly knowledge, amusement and entertainment, religious or otherwise. But it is always there, this emptiness and fear. In our emptiness, we practise for something which our fear has conceived to be great, and we remain in emptiness. Strip us of all jargon, robes, formulas and holy certainties, and what remains? Dull, aching emptiness and the fear of being nothing. The beauty of life goes by. Can you and I go beyond this seeking, these tortures, these actions of emptiness and fear? If not, we are bound to walk in darkness. In darkness, there is no light of understanding. Light is not at the end of fear and darkness; it is here when you know how to look. To see is the greatest thing.

From Can the Mind Be Quiet?

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For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.