"The reason a human being feels fear is because he has allowed

himself, carelessly allowed himself to be invaded. It's like a

man sleeping in his home during the day. He's supposed to be up

and alert and looking around during the daylight, but he isn't.

He's napping and vandals sneak and toss and tear and break, and

he suffers the consequences of his own sleeping state. Now, you

can learn how to stay awake so that when the psychic vandals plan

to invade you, they will know they're not going to get in the

doors because your state of consciousness, of spiritual alertness

is the lock. They cannot penetrate beyond the door that is locked

by your understanding of yourself, of how fear operates."

                      from a talk given 1/11/1986 AM

Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 1, talk 6, track 6