Thus, because we can no longer trust that fear will always faithfully protect us from danger—and in fact because of its potential to cause disaster; our potential to be manipulated by fear; the potential for fear to arise based on distortions of reality, exaggeration, and lies; the potential for fear to undermine human happiness; the potential for it to rise up and destroy us—it becomes critical to remain vigilant. We need to use our human reason, judgment, and critical thinking to monitor our fears, to assure that we look at our fears realistically, as the Dalai Lama suggests, to react with
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