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An Easy Remedy
Now, there is a small remedy which is very very easy.
For it is based on a simple personal question of one’s common
sense.... You must observe yourself a little and say that when you
are afraid it is as though the fear was attracting the thing you are
afraid of. If you are afraid of illness, it is as though you were at-
tracting the illness. If you are afraid of an accident, it is as though
you were attracting the accident. And if you look into yourself and
around yourself a little, you will find it out, it is a persistent fact.
So if you have just a little common sense, you say: “It is stupid to
be afraid of anything, for it is precisely as though I were making a
sign to that thing to come to me. If I had an enemy who wanted to
kill me, I would not go and tell him: ‘You know, it’s me you want to
kill!’ ” It is something like that. So since fear is bad, we won’t have
it. And if you say you are unable to prevent it by your reason, well,
that shows you have no control over yourselves and must make a
little effort to control yourselves. That is all.
CWM 5: 317-18

The Best Cure
... the best cure as soon as one begins to feel afraid of some-
thing is to think of the Divine and then snuggle in his arms or
at his feet and leave him entirely responsible for everything that
happens, within, outside, everywhere — and immediately the fear
disappears. That is the cure for the mystic. It is the easiest of all.
But everybody does not enjoy the grace of being a mystic.
CWM 5: 319

Power of Right Attitude
Is it really the best that always happens?... It is clear that all
that has happened had to happen: it could not be otherwise — by
the universal determinism it had to happen. But we can say so only

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