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Take one of your fears and go into it very deliberately, watching it. See if you can watch it, objectify it and remain with it, not escape from it. Look at it, go into it step by step, and find the root. Then take another fear. Are the roots different, or is there only one root with different branches, like a tree? If I can understand that one root completely, it is finished, whether the fear of death, of loneliness, of losing my job, fear of my not being able to give a talk tomorrow, the fear of falling ill. Are they the various movements of this central fear? For me, there is only one fear, the root of it, like an expanding tree. If the mind can go into it deeply, into the very complex root system, then examining particular fears has no value. Now, can the mind look not at the various expressions of the root but the whole root system? It can observe the root system completely only when the mind is not concerned with solving a particular fear.
From Facing a World in Crisis