The Letter Killeth Part 5The Crisis of Faith through Emotion
There comes a time when it becomes necessary to "lay down your life" in the sense that you must give up those emotional attachments upon which your selfish ego life has been nurtured. Just about then something within you stirs; it is threatened, and tries to make you doubt the new way you are going. It seems as though you were contemplating doing something wrong, giving up an inalienable right to life—like a crocodile's "right" to its prey.
Giving up your pleasure and your use of people is, to the selfish you, like giving up the right to life. Something wants to make it seem like there is something wrong with doing that.
You must be careful about two things: words which can poison your faith, and emotions which hand you over to a spirit of doubt".
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