Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume IV - Part 4

Fragment ID: 15515

Yes, the adverse forces take advantage of any perturbation of that kind [mental anxiety and fear when something bad happens] – 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.