Acharya Prashant explains that we allow fear to enter our lives because it does not enter as fear. Instead, fear enters as something sacred and holy. It enters in the garb of godliness, responsibility, attachment, duty, and religiosity. Had fear tried to enter as fear, you would have blocked it. For example, if someone offers to implant fear in you, you would not go to them. But if they offer to show you God and, in the name of showing God, give you fear, then their ruse would have succeeded. This is the origin of the expression 'God-fearing'; in the name of God, all that is given is fear. Fear is not intrinsic; it has been imposed upon the psyche. You can immediately rebel against that imposition and cast it off. You can simply decide to drop fear, refuse to be subjugated, and not take the rubbish anymore. Fear comes when you are told you must have life insurance, or that you must have a life partner for a nice old age, or when you accept a job for the career progression it offers. Fear is present when you offer to marry your girlfriend because you need to legalize the relationship. In these instances, fear is coming as security, as love, as a job, or as a career. Fear never comes as fear, but whenever it comes, it will make you uneasy. Your uneasiness is the hint. When you feel it, you must stop and pay attention. Attention is your friend; it will expose all the mischief. Just stop and pay attention, and all will be exposed. Fear does not exist without thought or without the future. Fear is never in what is going on; it is always a prospect, a possibility. If you are someone who must take care of the future and who lives in hopes, then you are also someone who lives in fear. You have been taught the virtues of hope and told to never drop it. But if you never drop hope, then you also never drop fear. They are two ends of duality. There are enough people telling you to remain hopeful, and that's how fear enters you. If you hope that you will get something, you will have to be afraid that you may not get that thing. That's how fear comes to you.