Part 14

Fear is caused by the self-imposed or self-permitted suggestion of inferiority.

Fear is not a physical thing, but it causes physical derangement.

Fearthought is self-imposed, and is therefore unnecessary.

Fearthought, being evil and unnecessary, is therefore not-respectable.

Fearthought is a habit which is altogether irrational and illogical.

Fearthought is a parasite which, in civilized man, is entirely abnormal.

Fearthought can be eliminated from the mind.

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Fearthought is the tap-root of all evil and trouble.

Anger and worry are expressions of fearthought.

All forms of worry are directly caused by fearthought.

Anger is directly or indirectly caused by fearthought.

All of the evil passions which group themselves under the class-names of anger and worry are therefore the result of fearthought.

Fearthought is the result of egotism. Egotism is the reverse, or, rather, perverse, of Egociation. It is caused by self-separation from Co-operative-Strength, from Universal-Good--from God.

Selfishness is the fruit and the evidence of egotism.

Fearthought is the first expression of selfishness.

Fearthought is, therefore, the tap-root of evil and consequent unhappiness.

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Forethought invites success.

Fearthought invites failure.

The future is the vital part of life--the dead past furnishing only food for reminiscence and experience.

Consideration of the future must partake of either forethought or fearthought--it cannot partake of both at the same time.

Fearthought is in no way related to forethought except as the shadow is related to the tree behind which it hides from the light--the light of right-thinking.

Forethought stimulates, aids, fosters, encourages, and insures success of honest aims--its child is growth.

Fearthought relaxes, hampers, strangles, and thereby retards growth, to the end of dwarfing, if not killing, it--its children are paralysis, disease, unhappiness and death.

Forethought is a producer.

Fearthought is a robber.

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