Fear is not the problem. We make it the problem when we make fear into an enemy that must be vanquished, rather than a part of our life experience that needs to be understood.

The cost of closing off fear—trying to isolate your experience of fear and not feel it—is that you close off to the rest of your capacity to feel other things. You cannot selectively shut down fear and expect not to shut down your capacity for joy, happiness, or love.

That’s it, right there: your relationship to fear, is your relationship to your life. If you are avoiding fear, I guarantee you that you are avoiding life.

We can't get rid of fear, although a lot of people will spend so much time trying to get rid of it. You have to practice and become a fear ninja because fear will not go away.