Confidence is fear

‘Confidence’ and ‘fear’ are actually two names for the same state of mind. Fearfulness says, “I’m at the risk of losing something important, that something important can be anything — money, security, respect, relationship, whatever.” Confidence says, “these things are important but I’m not at the risk of losing them.” What is common between confidence and fear?

Fear says, “what I have from the world is important and is at a risk of getting lost.” Confidence says, “what I have from the world is important but it is not at the risk of getting lost.” Now, what is common between ‘confidence’ and ‘fear?’

Both say, “what I have from the world is surely important.”

In fear, you feel that it might be lost.

In confidence, you feel that there is no threat of it being lost.

But remember, this feeling of no threat depends on time. What is not threatened right now, will be threatened after five minutes or after five days. Confidence will surely turn into fear because you have already made the basic preparation to be ‘afraid.’ The basic preparation to be afraid is the thought that what the world has given to me is ‘important’.

The root is there. Confidence is the point when the root has yet not expressed itself into the tree. The root is there. The tree is invisible. It has yet not come forth.