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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Oh! There are many ways of curing oneself of fear. But in reality </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''everyone finds his own way, the one good for him'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">. There are people to whom you have simply to say: "Your fear is a weakness", and they would immediately find the means to look at it with contempt, for they have a horror of weakness. There are others, you tell them: "Fear is a suggestion from hostile forces, you must push it away, as you drive off hostile forces", and this is very effective. For each one it is different. But first of all you must know that fear is a very bad thing, very bad, it is a dissolvent; it is like an acid. If you put a drop of it on something, it eats into the substance. The first step is not to admit the possibility of fear. Yes, that's the first step. I knew people who used to boast about their fear. These are incurable. That is, quite naturally they would say, "Ah, just imagine, I was so frightened!" And then what! It is nothing to be proud of. With such people you can do nothing.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p37</ref></u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''A strict discipline'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">is needed to cure the body of fear. The cells themselves tremble. It is only by discipline, by yoga that one can overcome this fear. But it is a fact that one can catch anything through fear, even invite an accident. And, you see, from a certain point of view everything is contagious. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p12</ref></u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">...one is cowardly because one is very tamasic and fears having to make an effort. In order not to be cowardly, one </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''must make an effort'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">, begin by an effort, and afterwards it becomes very interesting. But the best thing is to make the effort to overcome this kind of flight out of oneself. Instead of facing the thing, one recoils, runs away, turns one's back and runs away. For the initial effort is difficult. And so, what prevents you from making an effort is the inert, ignorant nature.</span>