Here's the real reason a "coward dies a thousand deaths." By law, any fear we refuse to face always returns...until we finally learn its essential lesson: resistance ensures repetition, so that whatever we try to go around will come back around again.

Once you realize that you can't separate an imagined fear from the level of self that believes in what it has imagined, you are near the end of your fears.

No fact is frightening unless it runs into conflict with what we want.When this happens, the fear is not in the event -- but in us -- who havedecided that in order to feel secure, life must jump through our hoop. So,the fear we feel is in our hoop, not the fact that life may have jumpedunexpectedly.

Learn to turn the things that you don't want to do in life into deliberate conscious actions, and it won't be too long before you'll want to do the things that you've always tried to avoid.