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'''Mental Fear'''
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">In fact, the vast majority of men are like prisoners with all the doors and windows closed, so they suffocate, which is quite natural. But they have with them the key that opens the doors and windows, and they do not use it.... Certainly there is a time when they don't know they have the key, but long after they have come to know it, long after they have been told about it, they hesitate to use it and doubt whether it has the power to open the doors and windows or even that it is a good thing to open them! And even when they feel that "after all, it might be good", there remains some fear: "What will happen when these doors and windows are opened?..." and they are afraid. They are afraid of being lost in that light and freedom. They want to remain what they call "themselves". They like their falsehood and their bondage. Something in them likes it and goes on clinging to it. They still have the impression that without their limits they would no longer exist.</span> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/26-november-1958#p14</ref>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Fear stems from a sense of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">inferiority</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">.</span> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#p35</ref>