The harder we struggle, the tighter the knots. We should relax, and let peace be our antidote to the poison of fear which consumes us internally, to the depths beyond physical description.

"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary.. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed soldier. Doubt does away with it with little trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes in to do battle for you..... reason is laid low. You feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety becomes dread."

Fear, real fear, shakes you to your foundation, usch as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words which speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. because if you dont, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you enver truly fought the opponent that defeated you.
Extract from Life of Pi by Yann Martel

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