Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (ed. Broadway Books, 2007) - ISBN: 9780307414090