Fear can arise from both external situations involving uncertainty and internal impressions that trigger insecurity within us; neither of these may be immediately in our control. However, we can prevent them from taking control of our mind entirely. If we treat fear as a source of information and not as a dictator, we can accept the input it brings, analyze it, and then act appropriately.

We may have to live with our fears, but we don’t have to live for our fears—let fear be an informer of our thoughts, not the dictator of our thoughts.

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18.35 And that determination which cannot go beyond dreaming, fearfulness, lamentation, moroseness and illusion – such unintelligent determination, O son of Pṛthā, is in the mode of darkness.