Fear isn’t always bad. Sometimes it warns us of real dangers to avoid. The Bhagavad Gita (3.35) points to such healthy fear, teaching that choices leading to our downfall should be feared—and therefore avoided.

Fear should stop us from rushing into a street with heavy traffic. But suppose our child has wandered into the middle of such a street— then we shouldn’t let fear stop us from rushing in to save them.

Fear becomes a problem when it moves beyond informing our decisions to forming them—when its voice grows so loud that we stop considering anything else. Then fear starts deforming our values.

 

Let’s not forget life’s most precious things— for whose sake facing some danger may be not just desirable but essential.

If we ignore fear completely, we become reckless. If we listen only to fear, we become feckless. Wisdom lies between the two— where fear refines our perspective but doesn’t redefine our purpose.

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