When any form of health is threatened, you say, perhaps, it is
FEAR that warns you to self-preservation. But I say it is REASON,
and your fear-feeling is unnecessary and hurtful. If you can
remember that the White Life or Universe and you have the same
desire, your highest welfare, you can banish the fear-element,
reserving only the reason-assurance element. All the fears in the
world cannot benefit you. Harmony and courage will sublime your
whole life.
I have never known a person whose reason has induced self-
suffering. Suffer-fear is always a product of diseased
imagination. What some may call reason-fear, when they think they
are extremely sensible, is simply fear, and nothing but fear, and
it is due to imagination, not to reason.
"But," you say, "are there not all sorts of evils in the world,
and do they not threaten us, and should we not forefend against
them? In this forefending, how can we escape fear?"
These questions show how thoroughly fear is knit into our very
lives.
Now this is precisely the point.
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