free sample music and song lyrics of "DON'T BE SCARED" by Mark Austin and performed by "The Mark Austin Band"

available from the "Message is Greater Than the Messenger" CD by Mark Austin Acoustic Unplugged featuring Jim Eager on guitar in concert with your iTunes account here

below is a video of a live acoustic version of this song performed by "Philosophy of Song" Brent Rozell on acoustic guitar

MARK AUSTIN ACOUSTIC UNPLUGGED: The Message is Greater Than the Messenger

Acoustic fretless bass, baritone voice and a single gibson 335 showcase these songs from veteran musician Mark Austin. Mark's band "Mark Austin Band" was voted "Alternative Artist of the Year 2004" and a lot of these songs, featured on "cosmic trigger"

DON'T BE SCARED

The blossom of the flower opens slowly like the mind
the adjustments of perception, never fearing peace sublime
All within their province bring together kindred kind
desires, true hope, if we could see the scenes behind

Don't Be Scared
It's better than us all
Don't Be scared
of the shadow of your soul
Don't Be Scared
it loves you just the same
Don't Be Scared
to learn to see the same inside
talk with the spirit of your heart
saved by the silence, the journey never ends
we go so far to find what lives within

It can whisper in the winds, bring knowing in the twilight
like a distant dream of inner thought or the dawn of inner sight
looking through the shadow to find the friend inside
silence is the looking glass to descry the peace I hide

(CHORUS)

I feel a responsibility for what I think because the arena of choice lives in my mind. What I do comes from what I think. It is there that I experience the consciousness of life; therefore, the need for me to interpret my brother's needs as my own. Every loving response I achieve identification with in my mind brings the remembrance of who I am closer to my awareness. So, for my own sake, I listen -- as if playing music with others. In order to create harmony and play with others, I first had to develop the art of listening with an open ear -- realizing the desire to complement the whole is a powerful expression of the individual. Love is infinitely the most powerful force in the universe -- ultimately, the only power in the universe. Fear is an illusion of the mind designed to conceal love. We are innocent in the sight of God. Whenever I fear it's because I'm trusting in the illusion of my own power, as if I'm (perceptibly) separate from God. We're all in the same big band. Fear is the opposite of love, yet what is all-encompassing can have no opposite. Fear is a symptom of the idea of having lost our own identity -- our Identity being a shared identity with each other and God. If we found Our identity, we would be loving and happy. We would have no need of creating a self image. Our identity never left us, we just forgot who We are. Truly, who We are comes from God, trancends our own self image, and is a part of all that is. To learn this knowledge -- which is to experience connectedness beyond our perception -- we need only to desire it and listen intently within. Faith (putting beliefs into action), intelligent effort (expansion of consciousness through daily meditation), and openmindedness (God is bigger than our beliefs) are all tools of the attitude of this desire -- this desire to connect with everything. Why would I choose nothing over everything? Why would I choose an illusion of the mind that I'd been taught to believe is real by others who were taught to believe it was real? Fear? "Fear not." "I speak of things not of this world," but of something you can experience within yourself, now. "The Kingdom is within and at hand," meaning here and now. Fear is an intellectual fraud. Nothing real can be threatened. Thank You!

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