Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
13. Opposition of the Hostile Forces
Fragment ID: 4077
Yes, the adverse forces take advantage of any perturbation of that kind, for it opens, as it were, a passage to their action. Fear is the one thing that one must never feel in face of them, for it makes them bold and aggressive.
Moreover, fear, as you justly say, calls the thing feared – it must therefore be thrown out altogether.