There is a widespread prejudice regarding fear and courage that we must recognize and overcome: that fear is always negative and courage is always positive. However, the reality is different…

Fear is the negative emotion that arises depending on the danger signals received by the mind. Life always has risks: it is a whole risk. Anyone who wants to eliminate danger lives half a life, without boldness, without risk, without passion.

Of course, there is a measure in things, which means that we must both break and recompose the balance. Therefore, every day we have: breaking of the harmonic balance, recomposition of the harmonic balance. A hit on the nail, a hit on the shoe. It is the search for harmony; life is like a dance on the slopes of a volcano.

Courage and fear. Fear is a god, and by saying god, I do not mean a deity that exists up there in the sky, living for ages and ages. I rather mean a force that is down here on earth, precisely within us, that is stronger than us and holds us back with the anthropological and cultural meaning of the divine, which I will focus on… V. M.