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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Fear is a phenomenon of unconsciousness. It is a kind of anguish that comes from ignorance. One does not know the nature of a certain thing, does not know its effect or what will happen, does not know the consequences of one's acts, one does not know so many things; and this ignorance brings fear. One fears what one does not know. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p20</ref></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">When an abyss separates the true being from the physical being, Nature fills it up immediately with all kinds of adverse suggestions, the most formidable of which is fear, and the most pernicious, doubt. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/insincerity-pretension-and-self-deception#p20</ref></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">However, when once you recognise that fear is neither good nor favourable nor noble nor worthy of a consciousness a little enlightened, you begin to fight against it. And I say, one </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">man's way is not another's; one must find one's own way; it depends on each one. Fear is also a terribly contagious collective thing—contagious, it is much more catching than the most contagious of illnesses. You breathe an atmosphere of fear and instantly you feel frightened, without even knowing why or how, nothing, simply because there was an atmosphere of fear. For mystics the best cure as soon as one begins to feel afraid of something is to think of the Divine and then snuggle in his arms or at his feet and leave him entirely responsible for everything that happens, within, outside, everywhere—and immediately the fear disappears.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p38</ref></span>
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