FEAR

By Dr. Frank Crane

It is safe to say that no good work was ever done in Fear.

Until you have struck the shackles of Fear from your

hands, you can do nothing.

Until you get the grip of Fear loosened from your

mind, your brain is not efficient, and you cannot remember

well, think straight, nor imagine constructively.

Until you purge the poison of Fear out of your heart,

your emotions instead of giving you power and pep will cause

you only shame and confusion. Fear is your greatest Enemy.

It is a Ghost. It is nothing at all. But it is no less terrible

for all of that.

It is this Ghost that knocks the cup of success from your

lips just when you are about to drink.

It is Fear that reaches out its ghostly hands to strangle

you in a crisis, just when everything depends upon you.

It is fear that tangles your feet, hangs like a millstone

about your neck on your journey, dims your eye so that you

cannot see the truth, roars in your ears until you cannot hear

the music all about you, fevers your blood, unstrings your

nerves and pours its senile impotence into your cup of life.

You have one big battle. It is to conquer Fear. That

done, the world is yours, your own will come to you, and the

stars in their courses will fight for you.