“I’m never free of fear,” some people say, implying that there should be a state of mind and body that is free of fear.

How can we possibly be free from fear when we live in the conditioned mode of the me-story most of the time? We’re deeply programmed to believe in this separate me by inaccurate language and by growing up in a world of other mes, all of whom think of and experience themselves as separate entities. . . . With separation inevitably goes fear and pain.

Toni Packer, Touching Fear