Fear is like a bully. When someone is scared of a bully, the bully becomes more and more menacing and troublesome. However, someone who faces the bully soon causes that bully to go away or not trouble them as much. We need to recognize that fear cannot be dealt with by running away from it. That will only increase its power over us — and in our imagination, the fear will become bigger and nastier. But when we face our fears, they will decrease and disappear gradually.

The more we run away from our fears, the bigger they become and the faster they chase us; the more we face our fears, the more they shrink and slink away from us.

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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.