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“Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental, physical, or social. Attachment and resistance are appearances with the same root: when you resist by pulling away your awareness, the emotion is one of fear, and the contraction is experienced as a pull like magnetism or gravity; that is, attachment. That is why we often fear to open our minds to more exalted spiritual beings. We think fear is a signal to withdraw, when in fact it is a sign we are already withdrawing too much.”

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Thaddeus Golas was a Polish-American author and philosopher known for his philosophical and spiritual writings. Born on June 15, 1924, in Poland, he later moved to the United States. Golas' work often explored themes of self-discovery and the nature of reality, and he is best known for his book 'The Third Eye'. He passed away on April 16, 1997. more

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