STEP 51 LET ME RECOGNIZE MY FEARS SO THAT I MAY SEE THE TRUTH BEYOND THEM.

YOUR OBSTACLES MUST BE RECOGNIZED in order for you to see beyond them. If they are ignored or denied, if they are protected or called by other names, you will not realize the nature of your restraint. You will not understand that which oppresses you. Your life is not born of fear. Your Source is not born of fear. To be able to recognize your fear means that you must realize that you are part of something greater. Realizing this, you can learn to become objective about your life and to understand your present circumstances without self-condemnation, for it is within these circumstances that you must cultivate yourself. You must start from where you are. To do this, you must take inventory of your strengths and weaknesses.

必须认识到你的障碍，你才能看到它们之外的真理。如果它们被忽视或否认，如果它们被保护或以其他名字称呼，你就不会意识到你限制的本质。你将无法理解压迫你的障碍。你的生命并非源于恐惧。你的源泉并非源于恐惧。要认识到自己的恐惧，就意味着你必须意识到自己是更大生命的一部分。认识到这一点，你就能学会客观地看待自己的生活，了解自己目前的处境，而不自责，因为你必须在这些处境中修炼自己。你必须从自己的现状出发。为此，你必须清点自己的优缺点。

IN YOUR TWO PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY, evaluate the existence of your fears and remind yourself that your reality is beyond them, but that you must recognize them to understand their damaging presence in your life. Close your eyes and repeat the idea for today; then consider each fear that arises in your mind. Remind yourself that the truth is beyond that specific fear. Allow all fears to arise and be evaluated in this way.

在今天的两次练习中，评估你的恐惧是否存在，并提醒自己，你的现实是超越它们的，但你必须认出它们，以了解它们在你生命中的破坏性存在。闭上眼睛，重复今天的想法；然后思考脑海中出现的每一种恐惧。提醒自己，真理超越了特定的恐惧。允许所有恐惧出现，并以这种方式进行评估。

TO BE WITHOUT FEAR, YOU MUST UNDERSTAND FEAR—its mechanism, its influence on people and its result in the world. You must recognize this without deception and without preference. You are a great being working in a limited context, in a limited environment. Understand the limitations of your environment and understand the limitations of your vehicle, and you will no longer hate yourself for being limited.

要想没有恐惧，你必须理解恐惧——它的机制、它对人的影响以及它在世界上的结果。你必须认识到这一点，不欺骗，不偏爱。你是一个伟大的存在，在有限的背景下，有限的环境中工作。理解你所处环境的局限性，理解你的交通工具的局限性，你就不会再因为自己的局限性而憎恨自己了。

PRACTICE 51: Two 30-minute practice periods.

练习 51：两个 30 分钟的练习时段