<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">... Everyone possesses in a large measure, and the exceptional individual in an increasing degree of precision, two opposite tendencies of character, in almost equal proportions, which are like the light and the shadow of the same thing. Thus someone who has the capacity of being exceptionally generous will suddenly find an obstinate avarice rising up in his nature, the courageous man will be a coward in some part of his being and the good man will suddenly have wicked impulses. In this way life seems to endow everyone not only with the possibility of expressing an ideal, but also with contrary elements representing in a concrete manner the battle he has to wage and the victory he has to win for the realisation to become possible. Consequently, all life is an education pursued more or less consciously, more or less willingly." </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/3-february-1954#p15</ref></u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">And I would add this: that fear is an impurity, one of the greatest impurities, one of those which come most directly from the anti-divine forces which want to destroy the divine action on earth; and the first duty of those who really want to do yoga is to eliminate from their consciousness, with all the might, all the sincerity, all the endurance of which they are capable, even the shadow of a fear. To walk on the path, one must be dauntless, and never indulge in that petty, small, feeble, nasty shrinking back upon oneself, which is fear. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/15-august-1956#p7</ref></u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">This courage, this heroism which the Divine wants of us, why not use it to fight against one's own difficulties, one's own imperfections, one's own obscurities? Why not heroically face the furnace of inner purification so that it does not become necessary to pass once more through one of those terrible, gigantic destructions which plunge an entire civilisation into darkness? </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/27-march-1957#p22</ref></u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The more you grow up, the more will you get over your fear if you let the contact with your soul develop in you that is to say, with the truth of your being and if you always strive that all you think, all you speak, all you do should be more and more the expression of this deep truth. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#p37</ref></u></span>